Text searching has come a long way when it comes to doing something scholarly such as a research for a paper or something simplistic such as finding out a recipe to make cheesecake without eggs. Tony Guidone’s presentation had gave me insight to how I can change the way I conduct my text search. Tony’s presentation had showed me that by searching for keywords in long bodies of text that it speeds up the acquisition of key information. Personally, it changed the way I interacted with information in the sense that it allowed me to skim over articles and webpages faster; however, Tony also mentioned how not everything is digitized and that it is important to understand this notion because there will be times where we will have to apply that skill of text searching to the real world.
The idea of digital projects making social change is a comprehensive argument that I side with because I do feel like that it can make significant social change. I say this, because digital projects have the ability to change what we know about the past and how we can apply it to our future and the present. Digital projects have the unique ability to give us this never before seen perspective that we potentially did not have in the past. These projects can not only change the way we look at history but also give fresh idea to old technology that we can now study and replicate to modernize it for the current generation.
Digital media as a whole has benefits and cost to being used. Some of the benefits being that digital media gives us this fresh perspective to look into history and judge through different lenses. A cost to using digital media is that not everyone can use it to conduct text searches; As Ian Milligan stated, “In short, this means that while an end-user can view the image file, there is no text layer that would allow one to simply copy and paste textual characters.” 1 This statement goes to show that not everyone can use it to their benefit which can be a detriment to their research if they need to use that source.
