If I had 1-2 min to explain what Digital Humanities is to someone who does not know I would tell them it’s the study of the culture of humans from a technical viewpoint. It involves tools like mapping, graphing, digitizing to help uncover new findings of ligature, history and art, while making the knowledge more accessible. From taking this class and someone who is majoring in Applied Communications with a Public Relations concentration this matters because PR is about communicating with people, networking, storytelling and being able to represent something or someone on the behalf and DH offers tools that makes this process more useful and engaging not only for me but possibly the people I could come in contact with. In my future career I can use these tools to build public campaigning and brand representation of companies. Overall, it helps bring the humanities to life and bring the data along with it visually.
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