Hi, Brittany.
At this time of the epidemic, I don’t think we can pay more attention to public health than now. At the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak, we lacked professional knowledge, so the increase of many cases and deaths was caused by listening to rumors. If there is a website that records the causes of pandemics, how to spread them and…[Read more]

Hi, Thoraya.
I think the starting point of your project is very good. I quite agree with you that communities, where black people live often lack the same quality of water, clean environment, and community services as other communities. Blacks and queers are often neglected groups in society. As you said, if black people and black homosexual…[Read more]

Hello, April.
I really love your idea and project! When I went to see a doctor, two doctors came to ask me about my symptoms in turn and then left me to wait for several hours. I have too many causes and details of my illness to talk to the doctor. But in this case, it’s difficult to tell the doctor about the whole situation, especially when…[Read more]

I also like the map design that web makers display maps and places in the books Frankenstein. It’s shown in the form of a map, which can make the readers who have read this book recall what they read, and then connect with the map. This is an ingenious connection that makes readers think that: Oh, so this is where the book said at that time. On…[Read more]

I’ve never heard of Frankenstein before, and I even don’t know what it is. After reading your blog, I searched on the Internet and found that the story in this book unfolds from Europe, and it is a very famous work. Based on this novel, A Frankenstein Atlas analyzes the local historical events and the historical meaning it represents. On this…[Read more]

Hello, Brittany.
I agree with you that social media includes much engagement from the public while reading books itself doesn’t involve much of that. Information provided by conversations and discussions on social media can inspire people to think deeply and have multi-dimensional thinking. Therefore, social media as a mode of information d…[Read more]

Media is social, it can be used as a medium to spread ideas, new information. When every Twitter user forwards a tweet, the audience grows by multiple. People can see the same content through someone’s retweets about discussing and reading about the Anthropocene. This shows that discussions (comments and retweets) on social media like Twitter will…[Read more]

Hi, professor.
I think the purpose of universal design is barrier free access, so this must be based on the original work to add or modify access methods. According to Williams, now the web page has developed to only create a web page, according to the needs of different people. As a result, the workload of the creator is increased this time. I…[Read more]

Hello, Chang.
I agree with you that “humanists should take care of the problem of language symbols and accessible ways within the public humanities projects.” To make the project accessible to more people, the project should contain a special design for disabled people, that is, any public digital humanities project should be designed such tha…[Read more]

Hello, Brenna.
I think your blog and the projects you describe are very interesting. This project provides us with a lot of general information, which is very useful for the masses in the current epidemic period. In particular, the sharing of their own stories, including photos and videos taken by the masses, makes the project more attractive.…[Read more]

From my perspective, an “audience” has something different from a “public”. An audience is a group of people who read, hear and participate in a project. Some audiences have a prerequisite that they know or have a certain understanding of the project content. If the project producer is aiming at the audience, then the audience will underst…[Read more]

I totally support your point of view that when scholars make works easy to understand and open to the public, public humanities can be regarded as the real “public”. In trying to make public humanities not that unpopular, scholars and experts in public humanities should also consider public participation. If articles in a field are not transferred…[Read more]

Hi, Jen.
As you said in the last paragraph of your blog, Gregory mentioned that cooperation between schools and communities will solve the financial problem of universities. The combination of the school’s public humanities and community practice will get twice the result with half the effort. I agree with him. This brought two your second…[Read more]

Hi professor.
I was inspired by your blog to answer the first question you brought up. In my opinion, academic publishing does not count as public humanities because it doesn’t actively engage the public nor transfer the professional works. However, in other situations, I would say it depends. If a person carries out a humanistic activity and p…[Read more]

After reading this article, I was convinced that academic publication is not public humanities. When I first thought about this issue, I was thinking that of course, academic publishing counts as the public humanities. Since it has been published, it means that more or less the public can have access to it, depending on the attention of individual…[Read more]

Hi, Brenna, I really like how you interpret digital public humanities from the word “humanities”. Lubar’s article focus on humanities more. For example, in the seven rules, he points out that humanities programs try to integrate into an existing community rather than create one. He also compares humanities with existing public art operating modes…[Read more]

Hello, Chris. I agree with your point that digital public humanities should have a balance between professional works by scholars and making works accessible to the public. Because of the transition to the mass, information adjustment work is very important. Another point is people can engage and communicate in the same community no matter…[Read more]