• Sara Thomas posted a new activity comment on Humanities Commons 5 years ago

    Hello April! I really enjoyed reading your response. I agree with many of the points you made and I really like the way in which you draw a connection between Stommel and Lubar’s works. I agree with your claim that academic works are often focused on a certain audience, which is where accessibility comes into play. When making academic work p…[Read more]

  • Sara Thomas posted a new activity comment on Humanities Commons 5 years ago

    Hello Brittany! I agree with the definition you generated in regard to digital public humanities. I love your use of the word “interconnection” because it shows the importance of the relationship among the public, digital world, and humans. The definition you created helped me better understand the different aspects that make up digital public hum…[Read more]

  • Sara Thomas posted a new activity comment on Humanities Commons 5 years ago

    Digital public humanities may seem like a complex idea that is difficult to understand; However, everyone is capable of forming their own interpretation of it. Based on what I currently know, I would define digital humanities as a way to absorb the public into a tight knit community of educated people. This is a community of humanists who work…[Read more]

    • Sara,

      Thanks for this response!

      And thanks also for touching on your last point. We won’t have time to fully cover it, though I might have included space for this question of anxiety had this been a longer course. Whenever you share anything publicly online, you’re taking a huge risk. This is why I made this blog private to our class -…[Read more]

    • Hi Sara!
      I feel that the push to make the public humanities more accessible/legible to the general public is absolutely needed to further broaden the community and help people share experiences. I notice in almost every academic reading, even those that harp on the need for legibility and communication between the scholars and the public, make…[Read more]

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