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IDL521S - INTRO. TO DIGITAL LITERATURE - 2ND OPP - JAN 2020 |
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NAMIBIA UNIVERSITY
OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
FACULTY OF HUMAN SCIENCES
DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATION
QUALIFICATION: BACHELOR OF ENGLISH
QUALIFICATION CODE: 07BAEN
COURSE CODE: IDL521S
SESSION:
DURATION:
JANUARY 2020
3 HOURS
LEVEL: 5
CLIOTUERRSAETURENAME: INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL
PAPER:
MARKS:
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100
SECOND OPPORTUNITY/SUPPLEMENTARY EXAMINATION QUESTION PAPER
EXAMINER(S) | DRK. CARTER
MODERATOR: | DR H. ELLIS
INSTRUCTIONS
Answer all questions.
Write clearly and neatly.
Number the answers clearly.
Use blue or black ink
THIS EXAMINATION QUESTION PAPER CONSISTS OF 6 PAGES (Including this front page)
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SECTION 1:
MULTIPLE CHOICE: Write only ONE correct letter: A, B, C, or D for each of the following
multiple choice questions:
[26 marks]
1) What is a concordance?
A. A programme that stores digital text.
B. An index of all the main words in a book, along with their immediate contexts.
C. A plagiarism detection programme.
D. Astandard encoding scheme for humanities electronics arts.
2) What was the significance of Robert Busa’s trip to the IBM’s Literary Data Processing
Centre in 1949?
A. It was there that he began working on a collection of pre-1642 editions of William
Shakespeare’s plays.
B. It was there that he met Thomas Watson’s sister who would later become his wife.
C. It was there that the seeds for creating the Internet and Web Browsing were planted.
D. It was there that the texts of St Thomas Aquinas were transferred to punch cards and
an index was created.
3) In the 1960’s, what deterred many people from doing computer-based work?
A. Travelling to computer centres took time and money.
B. Computer viruses were rampant and no programmes existed to fix such problems.
C. Data still had to be entered by hand, on punch cards or paper tape.
D. People were not interested in computers.
4) During the 1970’s — mid-1980’s, how did digital humanities evolve?
A. Mapping the correspondences and networks among scientific academies took place.
B. Many people had started using computers in their daily lives, and began to consider
what benefits they could offer.
C. Animated poetry (Kinetic poetry) was created and used widely among poets in the
United States and Europe.
D. Group collaborative projects among universities began to be formed.
5) During the early 1990s until today, how did digital humanities evolve?
A. A significant amount of digital text and image archives emerged at digital humanities
centres around the world.
B. The organisation, South African Humanities Association, was created.
C. The first internet browser became available in 2000, and this had a great impact on
digital humanities.
D. Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) was launched. Its purpose was to create a standard
encoding scheme for humanities electronics arts.
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6) In the United States, writers and printers became heroes for their writing and
dissemination of ideas during tense political times. This eventually led to the:
A. Civil War
B. American Revolution
C. US-Mexico war
D. Korean War
7) What is a characteristic of a blog?
A. Blogs are not static or fixed like a webpage, but not private like an email.
B. Blogs allow any user to add and edit content.
C. Blogs allow any user to use electronic highlights and insert comments.
D. Blogs allow any user to magnify it, change the font, change the colours, etc.
8) Through the Mapping the Republic of Letters project, one can:
A. Follow the correspondences during a 4-year expedition of a British explorer who
covered more than 7000 kilometers throughout Southern Africa.
B. Learn about different species of birds of Damara land.
C. Learn about rare plants in Namibia.
D. Follow the correspondences sent to religious leaders, scientists, doctors and
astronomers throughout England, France and the Netherlands during the 17“ century.
9) In digital humanities:
A. The digital humanist has access to so much information, that sorting through it all is
becoming a skill on its own.
B. The digital humanist can search through entire collections, looking for a word or a
phrase, or a frequency of a word.
C. The digital humanist can analyze information in ways that was not possible before.
D. All of the above.
10) Which statement below is FALSE?
A. Through digital humanities tools, we can view old manuscripts that are only stored in
one place in the world, such as the British Museum in London.
B. Through digital humanities tools, we can analyse the text of different documents to
confirm authorship.
C. Through digital humanities tools, we can conduct a network analysis of an HIV positive
man who infects multiple women, while at the same time discussing the social implications
of the disease.
D. Through digital humanities tools, we can find out the names of the more than 12
million Africans who were forced into slavery.
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11) Which statement below is FALSE?
A. Digital humanists sometimes use mathematical tools.
B. The tools that digital humanists use are complex.
C. The tools that digital humanists use are cost efficient.
D. Examples of tools digital humanists use include GIS mapping, spatial analysis, text
analysis, network analysis and data visualization.
12) Thirty years ago, academics experienced challenges when conducting research.
Which statement below is an example of a challenge academics experienced?
A. Academics in these times did their research primarily by using index cards and finding
books in the libraries.
B. If a rare book was sought, academics would write a letter to the author of the book
and then travel by horse to collect the book.
C. If finding a book in a library, academics would never be allowed to take the book out
of the library.
D. Academics in these times were not allowed use photocopying machines as they were
extremely fragile.
13) There are many different types of digital literature. The most basic is moving words
and images, which play through a flash file and resemble a video. An example of this
effect is:
A. Alison Clifford’s The sweet old etcetera
B. Michael Smith’s The Meaning of Life
C. William Poundstone’s Project for Tachistoscope
D. Emily Short’s Galatea
SECTION 2:
TRUE OR FALSE?
[24 marks]
1) Early manuscripts were produced on a surface that could survive long periods of time.
A. True
B. False
2) In some cases, only one copy of an early manuscript existed. Therefore, the manuscript
could only be viewed in one place in the world.
A. True
B. False
3) Before email, no message could travel faster than a human being could travel (by foot,
horse, ship or plane). Therefore, in the days before digital literature, communicating with
other scholars was done by letters or face-to-face encounters.
A. True
B. False
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4) The Oxford Text Archive was the beginning of the first digital library.
A. True
B. False
5) Digital humanities are studies about human culture, which includes literature,
philosophy and history. Subject matter is often in the form of artefacts, text, objects and
digital objects.
A. True
B. False
6) With new software being invented all the time, the term digital humanities is
constantly being revised and reconsidered.
A. True
B. False
7) Digital Humanities was initially called, “Computer Literacy.”
A. True
B. False
8) Beowulf is the
A. True
B. False
longest
surviving
poem
in Old
English.
9) Many universities offer Bachelor, Master’s or Ph.D. degrees in the field of Digital
A. True
B. False
10) A blogroll is a list of links to webpages that the author of a blog finds interesting.
A. True
B. False
11) A biography is a story or account that a person writes about themselves.
A. True
B. False
12) Academics sometimes differentiate digital humanities and traditional humanities by
describing digital humanities as “better” and traditional humanities as “worse.”
A. True
B. False
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SECTION 3: SHORT ANSWER
[50 marks total]
1) The literature journey in humanities began with manuscripts. Describe the early days of
manuscripts.
[10 marks]
2) Your friend is enrolled in an African history course and must write a paper about the
millions of Africans who were taken and then forced into slavery in Europe and the Americas
from 1500-1870. He locates a book on slavery in the library that was written 30 years ago.
Based on the book he found, you tell your friend that he may only find broad, general
information on the subject. You want to convince him that he can find more detailed
information about slavery on the internet. Convince your friend of the specific information
he can find based on the Animated Interactive History of the Atlantic Slave Trade described
in Unit 1. List 5 examples of what he could find.
[5 marks]
3) There are different types of digital literature projects. One of these is digitising rare
manuscripts. An example of this The Shakespeare Quartos Archive. Describe The
Shakespeare Quartos Archive project and its achievements.
[6 marks]
4) Brad Huddleston makes several important points in the article “Beware of the dark side of
technology,” from the book, Digital cocaine:A journey toward ibalance. List 5 points that the
author makes and give an example for each one to explain your point.
[10 marks]
5) In Europe, how did print lead to major changes in religion, science and culture? Write
three complete paragraphs: one on religion, one on science, and one on culture. [13 marks]
6) What did written text look like thirty years ago? Describe 3 characteristics or features of
written text thirty years ago. What was conducting research like thirty years ago? Describe
3 characteristics or features of conducting research thirty years ago.
[6 marks]
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