What Does Digital Humanities Mean to Us?
Digital humanities brings together humanistic inquiry and digital technology. It involves using digital methods to study topics such as history, culture, literature, and the arts, while also critically examining how technology shapes the way we create, share, and interpret knowledge. At its core, digital humanities encourages thoughtful and responsible engagement with technology, recognizing its potential to expand access to scholarship, foster new forms of collaboration, and inspire innovative approaches to understanding the human experience.
What are our Values?
- Respect: We are concentrated on ensuring that we stay respectful in our research, both to the subject of our work, each other and the world.
- Accessibility: Our projects are aimed at the broader public so that anyone who has the interest may be able to learn something new. As part of DH, knowledge should be something anyone can attain, and we can make our knowledge more equitable through accounting for device platforms, personal disabilities, legibility and visualization.
- Intersectionality: While we may find information about our topics based on the few predominant identities and the binaries, we aim to include voices that are often left out in the subjects as best to our ability.
- Transparency: Clearly explain our sources, methods, and limitations. In addition, we want to maintain the integrity of our research and give credits to the authors we get the information from.
- Advocacy: Fostering and encouraging beneficial and good changes with our research work, advocating for our values through it.
What Do We Hope to Gain From This Program?
Andrew: “The visualization tools, the research process, and working with everyone here will stay with me long after I’m done with DSSRF. But the principles of Digital Humanities and what it means to be an ethical, digital scholar will stay with me my whole life.
Elizabeth: “Through DSSRF, I hope to build and strengthen my skills in digital scholarship, data visualization, and communicating research to a broader audience. I want to combine my interests in Economics and Chinese studies while learning new ways to present complex topics in an engaging and accessible format.”
Vuochnea: “After my time with DSSRF, I hope to have strengthened my research knowledge and carry that with me to challenge the current traditional methods that often think in terms of objectivity and remain largely unreceptive to new ways of engaging with research. In addition, I hope to incorporate the tools and techniques I have learned here in future academic or personal projects.”
Yara: “DSSRF is giving me the opportunity to dive deeper into the topic of my long-term research, seeing the films from a new perspective and having the most valuable tools – storymaps, tableau, and, well, just enough time to first access and then organize the information that I will find in order to present it to the audience of my website”