After completing this course, I realized that digital humanities is more than just digital tools, it’s also about critically engaging with those tools and resources to analyze, interpret, and present human culture, history, and experiences daily in today’s society. Examples include text analysis, data visualization, digital mapping, digital databases, and digital archiving. Engaging with and integrating technology uncovers new insights and approaches to understanding human culture and history. Digital humanities is mainly collaborative with computer design, computer science, and data science.
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Problem statement: Health Disparities in St. Louis
- Observation, Background, and Context: St. Louis is one of the most segregated metropolitan areas in the United States. Racial and ethnic health inequities seem to be what we are currently facing in St. Louis County and the city of St. Louis. This includes equitable healthcare access, mental health disparities, heart disease, and cancer disparities. Social determinants play a key factor in the quality of healthcare. Health is affected by education, housing, access to health care, food security, and employment. The questions that arise from my observations are, what are the primary factors contributing to these health disparities, how does the division between St. Louis County and St. Louis City impacts public health efforts, How does environmental factors contribute to health inequities in St. Louis, Are there any barriers in accessing mental health services? Are there any adequate resources available to address health disparities in St. Louis that people may not be aware of, and if so how are healthcare providers, community organizations, and programs collaborating to reduce and promote these disparities? What interventions/tools are in place to address them, and how effective are they?
Key issues: Racial segregation, socioeconomic inequities, mental health care.
Approach: I would focus on engaging with the community, implementing accessible health programs, upholding policies, ensuring funding is available, and addressing social determinants of health. Racial disparities regarding health disparities, heart disease, cancer, and mental health have been well documented in the St. Louis county as well as the St.Louis region. This project will help determine what community proposed strategies will reduce these health disparities. The method I intend to use would be a distribution map or website. I also wouldn’t mind creating an organization to help others better understand its impacts on local individuals in the community.
Below are some facilities and places that offer resources regarding mental health, health access, food security, job employment and more!
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Digital Humanities is a study of the intersection between technology and humanity. Specifically, how they both evolve and can be used when interacting with one another. It focuses on finding new and innovate ways to present our culture and history using technology focusing on interactivity. By focusing on interactivity with technology to share these things, it becomes more engaging and easier to understand in some cases. Overall, digital humanities focuses on improvement in learning through the connection between humanity and technology.
Digital humanities allows for cross-disciplinary study into society, history, geography, and more, using multiple modes of source material and presentation. The methods used in this class showed that there are many ways to visually represent data outside of the traditional – digital mapping, textual analysis through word tracking, combining place and history through digital maps and timelines, and bringing together source materials with historical context and the ways in which it informs society and culture today. These modes of presentation allow for different institutions to present new interpretations of data in ways that are not only interesting, but accessible outside the traditional venues for such presentations – like museums, libraries, or historical buildings.
Digital humanities is the intersection of technology and the humanities. It involves using digital tools, such as mapping, text analysis, and data visualization, to study and present human culture, history, and literature in new ways. Instead of solely reading texts or studying events, digital humanities enable interaction with information, identification of patterns, and digital research presentation. The skills learned in this class can be applied to make projects in other courses more engaging and interactive. Professionally, digital humanities tools facilitate clear communication of complex ideas that are valuable in fields such as education, media, museums, and others.
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.
digital humanities is a modernized cultural effort to collect and preserve the human experience via digital technologies. It is an effort to permanently encapsulate historical texts, relics, and history in general. specific tools could include 3d renderings, virtual reality experiences, interactive timelines and many many more. Not only is it an effort to preserve, but also an effort to inform and spread historical information, there are even efforts within the umbrella of digital humanities to equip these technologies with easier accessibility.
I would define digital humanities as using essential digital tools such as record keeping, data visualization (timelines, maps, graphs), data tracking, and so much more to aid in creating innovative solutions to current sociological problems plaguing society that past technologies were not able or fell short in solving. Both recent problems, but attempting to document and ease decade spanning systemic issues plaguing some groups more than others.
Certain topics we have discussed stand out more than others. Text analysis can be very useful in almost any field. Analyzing text for possible biases or underlying opinions is also useful as people in our day to day lives. Digitizing can also be used in any field ensuring documents and objects are not forgotten or neglected. As a mass comm major, checking that whatever online content I create is accessible for all or as many possible to view and enjoy is very important.
Im creating a website about Katherine Dunham to explore the cultural impact and the role she played shaping the art and social movement using photos, documentaries, and city records.
Define digital humanities – When I first came into this class I was thinking that it would been all dealing with technology and coding but. It was a lot more then that I was able to learn how to find data and use a stop map for the first time I was able to pick up on new skills and I love it this class over all was great for every thing.