Digital humanities is an all-encompassing term used to describe the ever-evolving world of the arts in modern day society. The term can be broken down into two parts-- digital and humanities. "Humanities," before it became digital, held the key parts of human culture such as visual arts, writing, linguistics, music, theater, reading, history, anthropology, and even philosophy. To put it simply, the humanities are the divisions that hold the interpretations and studies of human culture. As time progressed into the "digital" era-- 1950s and forward-- the humanities started to evolve into something even broader just as human culture evolved. With technological advances, come cultural advances which leads to the eventual recognizing of the digital humanities. In order to describe the digital humanities, one must have an understanding of the evolution of human culture and the strong technological influence over the culture. When combining the digital world with the humanities, culture and human knowledge expand almost infinitely-- or at least as far as the technological world will allow. This umbrella-like idea holds now the digital humanities as well as the original humanities. Digital humanities holds media that can be found online, stored on a computerized facility, or any sort of art form expressed through technology. Similar to the original subject of humanities, digital humanities is merely an expansion of the term-- stretched to better fit the technological and human artistic advances of modern times.
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