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Phoebe Siegel wrote a new blog post Blog Post on the History of the Peloponnesian War in the group Digital Humanities: 6 years, 4 months ago
For my project I looked closely at the works of Thucydides and his historical depiction of the Peloponnesian War. I decided to use multiple different tools to create a more in depth analysis of the work and also […]
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Phoebe Siegel wrote a new blog post Map in the group Digital Humanities: 6 years, 5 months ago
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Phoebe Siegel wrote a new blog post Project Updates in the group Digital Humanities: 6 years, 5 months ago
In my project I am using timeline js in order to create two different timelines, one describing the events that occurred in the Peloponnesian War and the other showing the order in which Thucydides writes about […]
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Phoebe Siegel wrote a new blog post Vincent Van Gogh: The Letters, Project Summary in the group Digital Humanities: 6 years, 7 months ago
For my project, I looked at the letters of artist Vincent Van Gogh. The letters were compiled in different ways such as by time, correspondent, and location.
In this way the digital project provided more […]
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Phoebe Siegel replied to the topic Vannevar Bush's Memex in the forum Digital Humanities 6 years, 7 months ago
- In his article Bush explains different kinds of technology to the reader and emphasizes the rapid evolution of technology that is being faced in the world as more and more information becomes available to a person. In Bush’s opinion this ridiculous abundance of information is too overwhelming for a person to be able to benefit from because they…
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Phoebe Siegel replied to the topic Gleick on Information in the forum Digital Humanities 6 years, 7 months ago
- Before reading the chapter I would have thought of a computer as a set of formulas and long scripts that create a page for a reader. This still is partly true but after reading the chapter I was surprised by how mathematical based the creation of the computer was. After seeing how Turing went about developing the computer it seems as if it…
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Phoebe Siegel posted a new activity comment 6 years, 7 months ago
In reading Chapter 3 of Gleick’s book I was probably most astonished at how long it took for alphabetization to be used commonly. I was surprised that by the time of Shakespeare most people still did not know how to alphabetize and I found it interesting that in coming up with the first ever dictionary, Cawdrey also needed to provide a manual of…[Read more]
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Phoebe Siegel joined the group Digital Humanities 6 years, 7 months ago
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Phoebe Siegel became a registered member 6 years, 7 months ago
In reading Chapter 3 of Gleick’s book I was probably most astonished at how long it took for alphabetization to be used commonly. I was surprised that by the time of Shakespeare most people still did not know how to alphabetize and I found it interesting that in coming up with the first ever dictionary, Cawdrey also needed to provide a manual of…[Read more]