This week in class we looked at a few different digital humanities projects. On Tuesday I chose to look at a site about the Salem Witch Trails because that period in history has always really interested me. I thought it was really cool how the project focused on the voices of the women because that’s not a side of history we get to see a lot. In highschool, I wrote a paper about the time period and having this resource with so much information all in one place would’ve been very useful. In addition, the project sort of reminded me of a play I saw a couple years ago in New York which looked at The Crucible in a different light.
Today in class, we looked at an interesting graph about readers on Goodreads. This was particularly exciting to me because reading is one of my favorite things to do. In addition, I use Goodreads to rate and review books so seeing it in class was unexpected. Personally, I like to read all different genres so I don’t quite know where I would fall on the graph but it was cool to see it all laid out like and also cool that their are people out there that care enough about a site I use to make a whole project based on it.
In reading through all of the blog posts from last week I really found it cool just how wide of a space digital humanities seems to be. It’s interesting that no matter how niche the topic you’re looking for is you’ll still probably be able to find a project focused on it. Or even if your researching a big topic, you’ll be able to find something so specific by looking through digital humanities projects focused around that topic.
