by Pam Lach | Sep 22, 2020 | Community, Student Highlights
Reflections about the digital humanities from a recent SDSU graduate By Rose Rastbaf I had registered for Dr. Pollard’s Spring 2019 Ancient Rome, HIST 503, expecting a curriculum akin to that of a conventional history syllabus: traditional reading assignments, essays,...
by Pam Lach | Aug 4, 2020 | Community, DH News, Student Highlights
Harmit Chima joined the DH@SDSU Initiative as the DH Programs Assistant in June, 2020. She shared her thoughts about why she wanted to join the DH@SDSU community. I define “digital humanities” as the integrating application between digital technology and the...
by Pam Lach | Jul 14, 2020 | Community, DH News, DH Tools, Faculty Highlights
A lot of faculty are apprehensive about returning to virtual instruction in the Fall with the knowledge that all of their classes will be taught via Zoom for the entire semester (in contrast to the rapid shift to virtual last spring). One concern I’ve heard is about...
by Jared Zeiders | Nov 5, 2019 | Community, DH News
“…as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don’t know we don’t know....
by Jared Zeiders | Oct 14, 2019 | Community, DH News
Recently, China’s national library has remarked that it wishes to begin archiving posts from a popular social media site, Weibo. Despite protests by users, the platform argued that the intended purpose of this collection would be for research purposes only. ...
by Jared Zeiders | Sep 30, 2019 | Community, DH News
The past—that monolithic nonentity that weighs so heavily upon our present situation. Our past, the past we adhere to and accept, is what defines who we are in many regards. The things we have done, mixed with the benefits we have been given and the actions forced...
