Collection of Academic and Personal Writing
Digital Humanities
Destined for Digital Humanities?
The decision of what to do after college is something everyone faces during their final year of college. As I’m on my way to finishing my undergraduate degree in Digital Humanities, I’m in the same position as many other students have been at this point of their study.. What’s next? This had me wondering through […]
Understanding Gendered Networks in Early Medieval Narratives
Earlier this week I had the pleasure of being exposed to an incredibly exciting project presented by Dr Máirín MacCarron as part of a Digital Humanities Colloquium in University College Cork. The project is funded by the Leverhulme Trust and is titled “Women, Conflict and Peace: Gendered Networks in Early Medieval Narratives (c. 330-735)”. It […]
Understanding VR/AR
Through an informal yet highly engaging presentation, Dr David Murphy explained a variety of concepts around VR in an insightful and stimulating way. Giving a colloquium on the knowledge he has gained, being involved in VR since 1992. Beginning with presenting a reality continuum to explain the variety of reality manipulation and where his area […]
Data Driven Narrative – Practices and Beliefs Among Catholics in Ireland
Catholicism has a long history in Ireland and continues to influence and adapt to Irish society. For some, Catholicism acts as a cultural identity as well as a religious identity. This may contribute to the fact that many Irish people, including those who rarely attend church, observe the traditional Catholic life-cycle rituals, particularly baptism and […]
Defining Digital Humanities
Defining digital humanities has been one of the most common concerns held throughout the discipline. Having countless definitions and individual interpretations, alongside multiple contributions which ironically encapsulate what the digital humanities are. Following the natural breakdown of defining anything, I initially explore what the terms digital and humanities imply extended into what they mean together. […]
Technology Throughout Generations
This blog was inspired by my wonderful nana mo. I hadn’t seen her in almost two months because I’m in college full time and work every weekend. I call her at least three times a week and she always tells me how much she wishes she could give me a hug and see me face […]
Daily Digital Dependency
I wake up to the sound of my alarm which I set through the “bedtime” app on my phone. I pick up my phone before I even turn on a light or put on my glasses and scroll through my social media feeds for at least 10 minutes with one eye open and the other […]
Digital Literacy
It’s no secret that a certain level of digital literacy is an essential element in our lives in this generation, by definition digital literacy is the knowledge, skills, and behaviors used in a broad range of digital devices such as smartphones, tablets, laptops and desktop PCs, all of which are seen as a network rather […]
Zooniverse: SONYC Crowdsource Project Participation
Crowdsourcing is the connective sharing of knowledge, people-powered research defined as “participatory online activity with a specific aim.” It is the practice of engaging a crowd or group for a common goal, often innovation, problem solving or efficiency. This offers significant value in being able to broaden our understanding of particular areas, as contributors can […]
Review of HOTOSM and MapSwipe
I was extremely enthusiastic at this task which we were presented with during one of our DH lectures. We were introduced initially to the ideas behind MapSwipe which I was very intrigued to learn about. I downloaded the app almost immediately and began to go through the processes involved as a new user. It was […]
Economics
Economics for the Common Good
It’s sometimes called the “dismal science,” but the weird and wonderful world of economics is anything but drab. As a clear-eyed observer of the world, Nobel Prize-winning French economist Jean Tirole can draw upon decades of economic expertise to illuminate common features of the world in a surprising, and often downright counterintuitive, light. Tirole takes […]
The How, What and Why – Economics Proponents Of Free Markets and Advocates of State Regulation
It’s sometimes called the “dismal science”, but the weird and wonderful world of economics is anything but dreary in my opinion. As well as that of a clear-eyed observer of the world, Nobel Prize-winning French economist Jean Tirole, who can draw upon decades of economic expertise to illustrate common features of the world in a […]
The Impacts of AI and The Information Revolution On Modern Labour
It’s clear that we’re moving toward the kind of artificial intelligence that will automate most of our jobs – but how do we plan to deal with this scenario? I will discuss here the challenges we’ll face and what we need to do to prepare ourselves for the inevitable. The Economic Singularity (2016) takes a long, […]
The Software Society: Labour And The Cognitive Economy
Exploring what it means to work in the digital age, identifying the social issues around labour and what the meaning of labour is in a broader sociocultural and socioeconomic perspective. The traditional ideas of work are dissolving and in its place is a new cognitive and intellectual labour. Initially focusing on what labour is traditionally, […]
Technology
Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are
Let’s face it – no matter how true to ourselves and those around us we claim to be, to some extent or another, we still lie. Whether it’s inflating our benevolent characteristics in a survey about our lifestyle or not telling the full story about the sorts of weird stuff we do when no one […]
Creative Capabilities of AI
Exploring the growing capabilities of artificial intelligence is fascinating, its recent venture into creative fields such as art, music and literature – previously thought to be exclusively human territory. The origins of our own creativity is being duplicated in a sense as AI becomes increasingly more equipped in being able to execute art-making algorithms. Is […]
Digital Dissemination
Technology has infiltrated every aspect of our lives as people of the twenty first century. There is no day to day task that hasn’t become in some way aided by technology. The way in which we communicate as a society has changed substantially, and the rapid nature of this change, shows no sign of decelerating. […]
Destined for Digital Humanities?