Category: Digital Humanities

• Build it and they will come

  The crisis in the humanities is a well discussed topic, at least inside the humanities. The humanities are often seen as less important than departments that bring in money from the federal government or private businesses looking to turn a profit. These (like engineering and the sciences) departments produce “useful” and “practical” things while the…

  Brian Sarnacki

  January 31, 2011

  Digital Humanities

  capitalism, digital history, facebook, google, history, humanities, twitter

• The Social Network of 19th Century Brit Lit

  I came across this interesting project via twitter. While the exact approach does not carry over to history (the project visualized a social network using the dialogue in 19th century British novels, but, unfortunately, most of the “dialogue” of history gets lost), it makes the project I am working on for my digital history seminar…

  Brian Sarnacki

  January 29, 2011

  Digital Humanities

  dh projects, interdisciplinary, research, Social Networks, visualizations