As someone who has an interest in working in UI design or digital publishing, I think the digital humanities will heavily impact my future. Based off the DH projects we saw in the video and the one we looked at in class, they seem like resources I might have to use in my career. For example, I may have to find a pre-existing project or even create one of my own that looks into perhaps e-book sales over a period of time or around the world. Through connecting what we covered in class this week to my future career, it made me realize how impactful the digital humanities is because it truly is so wide-spread as it seems to be an integral part of so many fields. During this week we looked at a multitude of different DH projects, each one having a vastly different topic and means of presentation. We saw how DH projects work with and benefit studies of literature, language, history, geography, and much more. With how impactful the digital humanities seems to be in other fields, I find it interesting how other fields also impact it, as in it the digital humanities exists because of other fields of study, and DH aids all of them as a means of furthering their research, at least that’s what I’ve seemed to grasp from this week. With how much digital humanities lends itself to other fields, it makes me question why it isn’t regarded and talked about as much as similar fields akin to it. In my opinion, I feel it doesn’t receive much recognition because some people may not see it area of study like say sociology, but as a means to aid in research only. While it obviously does aid people in research, I think it’s dismissive of the work that goes into the digital humanities, as so far through what we’ve learned this week, I believe the digital humanities is also the bringing together and blending of researchers from different fields that may have never occurred before in order to advance the humanities as a whole.
