MP:Radika Myers

Greetings everyone! My name is Radika Myers and I am a final year Cultural and Creative Industries student with a concentration in writing for media and a discipline in International Relations.

As a student with an avid interest in digital marketing and the phenomenon of digitization within the creative and cultural industries, I saw it fit to take this course. Also, having read from the course description which states that “When you think “digital,” think about opening and expanding possibilities and connections” and that’s exactly what i am here to speak on. I am hoping that I’ll get a greater understanding or appreciation for digital writing to contribute to the re-framing of history through digital humanities. 

 The Review:

Laurie Taylor and Cultivating Caribbean Knowledge

Chambliss., J.(2020).Reframing Digital Humanities: Conversations with Digital Humanists.

In the thought provoking conversation Taylor notes that, “Digital Humanities is what you do with it. The humanities have always been about [the] social, cultural, and a bigger world. How do we have a better world? And there’s always the political and social impact of our work”. From the transcript, one gets to see the importance and impact of digital humanities and how it impacts our world. We see such an example through the longstanding 15 year project. Notably, this platform sees digital humanities as a tool that is preserving Caribbean literature and arts. One that is easily accessible at the fingertips, a literal online digital library.  Chambiss notes, “There’s a preservation element that is very clear. You have the member groups and the way the DLOC works [when] the member groups put stuff in. And, therefore, it’s accessible to users”

Additionally, the issue of limited trained librarians and archivists who have the professional capacity to manage these resources on the island brought the need to digitize such information and as such DLOC has been a solution to this problem.