Multimodality

Resources

• Transformation: How the Digital Creates New Realities

  EN

  This lesson from Ranke.2 looks at how digital technology has stirred our imagination and enabled us to create new (and sometimes virtual) realities; and covers topics ranging from ancient Greek myths to snapchat filters. However, the availability of this technology to transform both us and the world around us should be treated with skepticism, as the merits of an all-encompassing digital lifestyle do not completely outweigh its disadvantages and pitfalls.

• Storytelling for Digital Narratives and Blended Spaces

  EN

  This interdisciplinary course addresses how principles of textual, visual, oral, and place-based storytelling challenge and enhance the conceptualisation, construction and experience of digitally-created worlds connecting to real-world places, locations, and landscapes.

• Multimodal Literacies

  EN

  This course invites you to discover the world of digital multimodal literacies through history, examples, experiments and editing tools. In the last unit you will be able to build your own multimodal editing tool, an eTalk.

• From the Archival to the Digital Turn: A Lesson on Source Criticism

  EN

  Have you ever reflected on the origin and authenticity of a historical source that you retrieved from the web? This lesson offers insights into how the practice of applying source criticism has been affected by the digital turn. What are the new questions that historians should ask of digitised and digital-born historical sources, and what new skills should they master to be able to answer these questions?

• Digitisation Methods for Material Culture

  EN

  This resource is an introduction to Digitisation Methods for Material Culture. The resource explores basic topics with regards to the study of material culture, while also looking at types of media as means to communicate and share information about it, as well as digitisation methods to capture material culture data.

• David Boder: From Wire Recordings to Website

  EN

  Understanding how digitisation of legacy data and digital technologies involved in those processes is key for a critical appraisal of digital history. This lesson examines the transformation of information from analogue to digital, using a collection of wire-recorded interviews conducted by psychologist David Boder in 1946 as a basis.

• Creating Stories with 3D Data on the Web

  EN

  This resource provides guidance on how to use digital storytelling, deploying 3D data, annotations and combining media to enable users to access and explore information about digital heritage assets over the web.

• Born-Digital Research in the Humanities Course

  EN

  Born-digital culture refers to materials, environments and practices that originate in a digital form. In the 21st century these have rapidly expanded, with many of our contemporary cultural practices increasingly mediated in some way by digital media and technologies. In this course, designed by the Digital Humanities Research Hub at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, you will explore key concepts associated with digital culture and archives, ethical issues, and how to collect and analyse born-digital materials.

• Scholarly Primitives 20 Years Later

  EN

  In a keynote lecture at the DARIAH Annual Event 2020, John Unsworth revisited his seminal concept of scholarly primitives as the foundation of research activities across disciplines, theoretical frameworks or eras.

• Reconstruction Of Archaeological Objects As A Digital Twin

  EN

  This resource aims to acquaint both DH experts and the general audience with the general idea, the workflows and advantages of transforming manual object reassembly and restoration into a digital twin.

• Introduction to Shared AR/VR Environments for Collaborative Exploration

  EN

  This resource introduces the fundamental concepts of Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR), presents contemporary AR/VR headsets and their capabilities and explains how immersive technologies can support the use of Reactive Heritage Digital Twins (RHDTs) for information visualization, annotation and collaborative interaction within virtual environments.

• Introduction to ELAN

  EN

  This resource introduces learners to audio material segmentation, transcription, text annotation and dictionary creating using the tools ELAN and FLEx.