Essay Exhibit Discussion

During our final week of classes in Digital Humanities, the class was able to put there final essays on exhibit for everyone to view. I particularly enjoyed the Google Maps Essay exhibit that one of my classmates did. She included "Mr. Plimpton's Revenge" and that was one of the coolest things we looked at this semester. Google Maps essays allow people to tell location based stories by showing certain places on an actual map to the reader. They also allow the creator of the essay to input text and pictures to the maps to give the reader a fuller experience while reading the narrative.
I also really liked the exhibit on convergence, it was a really fascinating topic that caught my attention. Convergence is an interesting thing that says eventually all media will flow through one outlet - this is the black box fallacy. Henry Jenkins argued the theory, saying that media will eventually be everywhere, and will not flow through one "black box". Overall, all of the exhibits were really interesting and I thought that everyone did a great job in the class. Digital Humanities was definitely a thought provoking course that I'm glad that I took!