In Chapter 3 of Debates in Digital Humanities, Lisa Spiro attempts to define the values of the Digital Humanities community. Spiro believes that creating a value statement will help make Digital Humanities more effective and provide a greater understanding of their work to a larger audience. Throughout the chapter you get the sense that Spiro is shooting blanks into the sky hoping to create an illusion that she actually might hit something. She goes back and forth between suggesting solutions on how Digital Humanities can improve, to how she realizes that her suggestions may not actually help to remove any criticism. She insists that the value statement be written by the community for the community, but yet the only thing a reader gains from this chapter are Spiro's values. Her fight seems to be to remove Digital Humanities away from traditional humanities, but somehow this chapter does more to reinforce the sameness of the two. They both don't know how to do "diversity" and their "community" is actually a gentrified block.
In this essay, W.J.T. Mitchell examines visual media, specifically visual mediums. Using a very authoritative tone and patriarchal gaze Mitchell deconstructs visual mediums by expressing his belief that "all media are mixed media". He relies on art history references to support his subjective claims. Reading his work it is easy to become turned off because he leaves little room for you to develop your own opinion. Art historians beware,
Mitchell is not too happy with your way of seeing.