Some visuals you can include

Let's take a look at good digital humanities sites

James Farmer

Mary Baldwin

Timeline JS 

StoryMap

Here is me using the mapping tool right before class.

Thinking about your sections

There should be 7-10 sources in each section.

Societal sections

"Society" is the sum of all the different social groups, social rules, and social interactions we experience in living, working, and playing with our fellow humans, whether we want to or not. 

The "culture" of a society is its own particular stage or level of refinement, especially in intellectual and artistic pursuits.

What is the difference between culture and society?

The first thing Id like to clear up before I begin to look at culture is that my perspective on culture is a lot broader than is normally used in everyday life (kind of anthropological). 

When you say England has a different culture than say, Germany what you are really referring to is ‘society’. 

The society is different, there is a different language, some behaviors are different etc. In other words it fits the following definitions:

• An enduring and cooperating social group whose members have developed organized patterns of relationships through interaction with one another
• A community, nation, or broad grouping of people having common traditions, institutions, and collective activities and interests

Culture is a broader perspective and can be expanded depending on the classifications you use. 

Using the above example England and Germany are both Christian majority countries, they share similar economic and democratic values, they share a common ancestral language…in fact that ancestral language is shared with the Indian subcontinent as well. 

A cultural diffusion took place around 4000 B.C. probably from the north Caucasus region as it went from semi-arid to desert. The tribes from this area spread south, west and north-west. That is why all the cultures that developed in the Mediterranean had a very similar pantheon of gods as the Hindus (for example: both Zeus and Indra throw lightning bolts). Later it was discovered that certain languages share roots and we now know that Greek, Persian, Latin, Hindi and English all originate from the same tribal group millennia ago.  

Each of these groups (Greeks, Hindus etc.) has different societies but they share a cultural heritage.  

1. The integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior that depends upon the capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations
2. The customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group; also : the characteristic features of everyday existence (as diversions or a way of life) shared by people in a place or time 
3. The set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution or organization 
4. The set of values, conventions, or social practices associated with a particular field, activity, or societal characteristic

In other words there can be different cultures within a society.

Some of the questions to ask your artifact for Societal section:

• What was the social scene during the time your artifact came into being?
• Was your artifact dubbed a “classic” by the society in its’ day or was it later?
• What was the reaction by different levels of society when the artifact became popular?
• This is where the Marxism, Feminists, Deconstructive analysis comes in. These theories will also fuel the rest of the project.