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Digital humanities opened an endless avenue offering possibilities for online research and teaching. As long as you have the democratization of the internet and the accessibility to technology, Digital humanities can expand knowledge and scholarship beyond academia. The great achievement of the field/medium needs to be that. The democratization of knowledge and technology. People having access to research and information. However, as digital technology comes with expensive prices in its components, digitization and storeging also costs lot of money. According to Cohen and Rosenzweig, changing a analog document into a digital one naturally comes with a loss of quality or meaning (Digital History, 82). The authors quote one leading library scholar, Abby Smith to explain in details how that loss usually works. According to Smith “analog information can range from the subtle tones and gradations of the chiaroscuro in a Berenice Abbott photograph of Manhattan in the early morning light, to the changes in the volume, tone, and pitch recorded on a tape that might, when played back on equipment, turn out to be the basement tapes of Bob Dylan” (Digital History, 82).
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