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Asia Vaughn

Sophmore @ GSU

Defining digital Humanities

A field concerned with application of computational tools and methods to traditional humanities disciplines such as literature, history, philosophy.

The medium is the message

What does McLuhan mean by the medium is the message?
It means that the nature of a medium (the channel through which a message is transmitted) is more important than the meaning or content of the messageMcLuhan tells us that a "message" is, "the change of scale or pace or pattern" that a new invention or innovation "introduces into human affairs."

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Singularity

What is the singularity AI?
The singularity in the context of technology, is a hypothetical future event that is related to the advent of true artificial intelligence, what philosophers in the field call strong AI. ... The singularity is also known as the technological singularity.

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Components of DH

Electronic Enviroment and the Media;

"The study of thinking differently about how we know what we know, how the interpretive task of humanist is redefined in changed condition"

Computational tech, methods, and tools;

DH studies the intersection and mutual influence of humanities ideas and digital methods with the goals of understanding how the use of digital technologies and approaches alters the practice and humanities scholarship.

Digital humanities studies the intersection and mutual influence of humanities ideas and digital methods, with the
goal of understanding how the use of digital technologies and approaches alters the practice and theory of humanities
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Digital humanities studies the intersection and mutual influence of humanities ideas and digital methods, with the
goal of understanding how the use of digital technologies and approaches alters the practice and theory of humanities
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