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This article is one of my favorites! Ms. Knowles chose to ask a question that could not be aswered....until they found a way by means of digital humanities. The questions was simply this, "What could General Grant see in his view at Gettysburg?" This question sparked a menas to find an answer by digitally mapping the terrain at the time on the battle in coordination with Grant's height/ location. This success led to a Project wtih Knowles and Paul Jaskot concerning the concentration camp, Auschwitz, and another similar project done about the Salem Witch Trials by Benjamin Ray. Such great research and visual representations.

Anne Kelly Knowles, a geographer at Middlebury College in Vermont, posed a simple question that could not be accurately answered before: What could the confederate general Robert E. Lee actually see during the battle of Gettysburrg. In order to answer this question Ms. Knowles team began by creating a digital map of the areas topography at the time of the battle. Then, the group as whole began to replicate the view Lee would have had by generating what is known as a viewshed from a point 75feeet above the terrain the distance from the ground to the cupid floor plus Lee's eye level standing in his.

This is an interactive question and answer website by the Association for Computers and the Humanities. The question this link leads to is more of a request by Inna Kizhner, a member of this website, for help with DH projects with strong visual/non-linear components. This website shows that in the field of Digital Humanities, many people reach out to each other and collaborate.

This blog post created in anticipation of a panel on undergraduate work and research in the digital humanities creates many questions and ideas for discussion at the panel. The author invites others to share input in hopes of turning it into a discussion to bring forward to the panel at the 2013 Digital Humanities conference. Among these questions and ideas are questions of the best way to incorporate project-based digital humanities research approaches in the undergraduate classroom as well as designing curricula to incorporate Digital Humanities into the coursework while still including traditional humanities disciplines.

This article highlights three large uncertainties of the Micha Cardenas about the digital humanities: is queer new media rare or is analysis of it rare, if there is something "conservative, even sellable" that is present in the digital humanities, and can queer theory, new media, or the digital humanities "disturb hegemonic systems." Although the article does not answer any of these questions, it discusses the history of Queer Theory as "hip, trendy," and its potential reflection in the digital humanities. These questions also arise out of a concern that discussions in digital humanities, particularly CCS, "can run down a road that is very conservative."

This forum on digital gaming raises some controversial questions in regards to the gaming world in our culture today. It points out the "serious addictions" and "aggressive tendencies" that most digital games possess today and raises the question, "Could it change?" Would a gaming system that introduces "virtual Peace" catch on in the mainstream gaming culture, or only pool in the more "university study" sites that seek to introduce it? Could a spark catch in peaceful gaming that instead of violence incorporates UNICEF or Red Cross into the virtual gaming world?

This article highlights the issue of technology assisting to those who could potentially do powerful and bad things with it. Some of this technology is in place today to help assist these terrorists to crumble our nation's infastructure. Security expert, Brian Snow, seeks to answer the hard questions concerning the intent to use technology in negative ways if put into the wrong hands.

This 'conversation' by Patrick Murray-John is about the tension caused by collaborating with people of different focuses and specialties (more hack; less yack). He challenges the thought that technology has invaded the humanities. he believes that it is the other way around, owing to the detail to structure of the digital representation. He argues that explicating code as you would a dissertation is a great approach because the code does contribute to how people will perceive and process the information on the page. He compares user interface to kids learning to analyze literary text. The question many students ask ("Why can't we just read it? Why does it have to be work?") should not be questions posed about the interface. He believes that users should not be able to view or deal with the inner workings of the application.

The Creator is a film that personifies computers in the future to ask where it is they came from and trace their lineage back to a man named Alan Turing, who first asked the question, "Can Machines Think?" After the viewing of the film top computers scientist will have open discussions concerning the questions and concerns this film brings up.

This article attempts to survey the history and turn up the evidence of who actually invented the internet. Who were its' pioneers? And what was the driving force behing it all, what is the history here?

According to the article, DH Answers represents a chance for digital humanists to communicate with fellow digital humanists through a free and community driven Q&A board. Anyone may post and answer freely, and community members are encouraged to tag their posts so as to facilitate the creation of new categories. Questions range from improving the site itself to introducing undergraduate students to the digital humanities. Forums users may also make requests for information, such as "a list of all graduate programs that study DH."

In this blog article, scholar Elizabeth Hopwood asks followers how Digital Humanities can be used for food studies. People are paying more attention to what is eaten and it's health benefits/negativeness--incorporating digital humanities to such a field would be greatly useful. Other bloggers and Hopwood agree on the need to digitze projects for food studies and mention the New York Public Library online menu database.

This website, arts-humanities.net, aims to support and advance the use and understanding of digital tools and methods for research and teaching in the arts and humanities by providing: information on projects creating and using digital content, tools and methods to answer research questions, information on tools and methods for creating and using digital resources, a listing of expert centers and individual researchers, a library documenting lessons learned through case studies, briefing papers, and a bibliography. The website encourages people to become members and to contribute.

Zotero forums is a part of Zotero's website that people can register to and join the online conversation about the Digital Humanities. Most of the forum is dedicated to issues digital humanists can run into in the technical side of the field. This link takes you directly to a list of the forums that many people use to ask questions, opinions, and overall discuss an problems or thoughts they may be having about the digital humanities.

DH answers s is a part of the Association for Computers and Humanities' website that people can register to and join the online conversation about the Digital Humanities. Most of the forum is dedicated to issues digital humanists can run into in the technical side of the field. This link takes you directly to a list of the forums that many people use to ask questions, opinions, and overall discuss an problems or thoughts they may be having about the digital humanities.

This article discusses the economic nature of publishing from the viewpoint of an author and editor of the works of others. The author explains the legitimacy of publishing companies' practices in the past, but calls into question those of modern for-profit publishers. He rejects the current model, in which his readers would pay more for a day's use of his article than for either of his books, and supports a billable-hours system like that of lawyers or psychiatrists.

This post highlights a project by Sanna Dullaway to recolor old black-and-white photographs from the 19th and 20th centuries in order to recreate the vibrant, colorful worlds that we usually imagine in sepia-tone. In addition to the praise of the project, Yvonne Seale questions if it takes away our historical imaginations and violates the artifacts' historical integrity. Either way, she concedes that this project makes the past more tangible to newer and younger audiences used to seeing everything in color and gets them thinking about history.

At the Digital Studio for Public Humanities, Kyle Moody attempted to define digital humanities in one sentence: "open and accessible research and content creation, distribution, and evaluation by persons able to use or utilize technology." In his definition, all people are included whether they are coders or not, a notable difference from many other digital humanists' definitions. Moody discusses how the digital humanities and technology are helping to blur the line between those accessing and consuming content and those creating content. This active reaction to what is being consumed helps developers to see what is wanted and needed and adjust their content based on public reaction. He left his audience with the open question of whether or not the academy has the responsibility to give the public more control over what scholars produce as well as if the academy should be the benevolent curator of cultural content.

This article focuses on collaborative teaching in a classroom and uses Twitter to have a discussion. Usually teaching is done by one person which henders the collaborative work of the teachers and discourages collaborative between students. This article asks questions to how to collaborate in a classroom.