Technology Flashcards
LA Review of Books: Key differences between physical humanities and digital. Interviewer argues that there is a lot to be lost by doing things strictly through digital forums.
similarities and differences between digital humanities and digital media, influences and parallels between “Old,” traditional media and “New” media
Big tent: Humanities have expanded and now include the digital world; many more forums and projects than previously
The “Big Tent” concept in digital media, digital humanities; diversity in technology
A set of data that describes and gives information about other data, and is often attached to digital projects. In addition, it has many uses such as using it to map connections (Finding Paul Revere) and often contains basic information about digital things such as the author name, date modified etc
Metadata
International project to develop guidelines for marking up electronic texts such as novels, plays, and poetry, primarily to support research in the humanities. It specifies a header portion, embedded in the resource, that consists of metadata about the work. It is the electronic versions of printed texts.
TEI: (text encoding initiative)
A formal model that is based on an ordered hierarchy, or, in technical informatics terms, a tree. It consists of a root (which contains everything else), the components under the root, which contain their own subcomponents, etc. These components and subcomponents are called nodes
XML
Reasons to use ___.
- It is a formal model designed to represent an ordered hierarchy, and to the extent that human documents are logically ordered and hierarchical, they can be formalized and represented easily as __ documents.
- Computers can operate quickly and efficiently on trees (ordered hierarchies), much more quickly and efficiently than they can on non-hierarchical text. This means that if we can model the documents we need to study as trees, we can manage and manipulate large amounts of data efficiently.
Reasons to use XML
System for storing displaying and analyzing spatial day
Software, hardware, data and processes, Spatial database that includes locations and properties
Allows storage of massive quantities of data
Used for Facilities management, planning, public safety, environmental analysis and resource management, health, business analysis and academic research
Why? Saves time and money- you would usually do this all by hand
GIS, Geographic Information System
___ of a technology is closely related to the technology itself.
Ex: A screen is a type of material that allows for digital projects to be displayed in ways that it never was before- the material of technology changes the way it is perceived.
Types: performative, distributed, forensic, formal
Materiality of Digital Media
___ materiality: Physical evidence like ink, paper, fingerprints
Forensic
___ materiality: code ans structure of a human expression like organization of layout, design and literally composition
Formal
___ materiality: emphasis on the production of work, like interpreting text in a book is an act of creation
Performative
Social Networks: ___. Creating matrices that can allow us to see connections between people that we may have missed
Metadata in Social Networks
____. We watched a video in class of the inventors of a tool thatthat analyzed relationships between emails and how that is a way of viewing your network. We discussed the implications that this could have if we were ever able to do the same for all forms of social digital interaction.
Social Networks represented digitally
Post WWII, this term came up and it described the fear and anxiety that tech is taking over our lives. Neuromancer represents that in describing that you’re always connected, and when you’re not you need drugs (case is addicted to drugs because he’s disconnected from cyberspace). There’s a fear of disconnect and lack of intimacy
Neuromancer - Postmodernism
Pokémon go conversation- is it okay for companies to only market to certain demographics? (is this racism?)
Pokemon Go is based off a game played by white males so in highly white-density communities, there are more poke-stops
Big Tent - Racism DMS
