During our first week of Digital Humanities I learned a lot of valuable information so far. Going into this class, I had absolutely no idea what digital humanities was, nor did I ever think it was something that was surrounded in my everyday life. Although I am still learning the meaning of Digital Humanities, I do believe I have some knowledge of it. Humanities is the study of all languages, history and human culture in society. Digital humanities is the domain of researching and studying to develop digital technologies. In simpler terms, digital humanities is the field where information and research is given in an electronic form. Social media has become a huge deal in society today, which makes it easy for workers to advertise. In 2020, the Black Lives Matter campaign began circling through society and soon became one of the biggest and most conflicting campaigns. This movement specifically blew up over social media, considering everyone in this generation nowadays has some sort of online communication and knowledge. It is very effortless to go online and post or see information digitally that is trending in our generation and suddenly become up to date with it. Most influencers and campaign leaders use social media as their main platform, to reach the largest audience they possibly can to ensure they are getting their message heard. In today’s world, digital tools are being used all over those who are interested in arts or history of something. The power to be able to share information to others outside of the computer science field is a major factor of digital humanities today. In my Pop Culture Literature course, we were instructed to write a personal narrative on what we think Pop Culture is in today’s generation and how it affects our daily lives. I continued to write about how social media is a major factor in pop culture today and how easy it is to be influenced by someone who has a million strangers liking and resharing their digital content. I think there is some connection here between pop culture and digital humanities and how posting information online can reach a bigger audience and have a better outcome than any other source. I still believe there are many more concepts and details about digital humanities that I will learn throughout this semester.
