A few Unanswered questions from Monday's readings on "Spatial Humanities" - 7 views

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  #1 Christina Stokes on 20 Mar 14

   

  Hi everyone, so I thought I would post some of the questions I had from the readings that I forgot to mention during class to get some feedback if anyone else was having the same questions.
  
  1) Jason Farman makes the argument that Google Earth privileges those who have free and widely available internet access (Kenya versus Tokyo for example). Couldn't this argument be applied to every digital application? Does Farman really validate this argument in his article? Does this implicitly make every member of the "Google Earth Social Community" the dominant members of a digital empire?
  
  2) This question relates back to our second assignment when we discussed how to come up with an evaluative criteria for digital projects. Ruth Mostern discusses her experience in adding a digital map project on Silk Road to her traditional history seminar. In her findings (paragraph 33) she lists that students received substantially higher marks in the digital map than in the traditional essay. Does this suggest that because this was the first time Mostern evaluated a digital project it was easier for students to achieve a higher mark as there was not a well established rubric/evaluative criteria as there would be for the history essay?

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Hi everyone, so I thought I would post some of the questions I had from the readings that I forgot to mention during class to get some feedback if anyone else was having the same questions. <br /> <br /> 1) Jason Farman makes the argument that Google Earth privileges those who have free and widely available internet access (Kenya versus Tokyo for example). Couldn't this argument be applied to every digital application? Does Farman really validate this argument in his article? Does this implicitly make every member of the "Google Earth Social Community" the dominant members of a digital empire? <br /> <br /> 2) This question relates back to our second assignment when we discussed how to come up with an evaluative criteria for digital projects. Ruth Mostern discusses her experience in adding a digital map project on Silk Road to her traditional history seminar. In her findings (paragraph 33) she lists that students received substantially higher marks in the digital map than in the traditional essay. Does this suggest that because this was the first time Mostern evaluated a digital project it was easier for students to achieve a higher mark as there was not a well established rubric/evaluative criteria as there would be for the history essay?</div>

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