The two articles I chose were Transcribe Bentham and Selfiecity. Transcribe Bentham is a collaborative transcription initiative which invites people to transcribe and access the manuscripts written by Jeremey Bentham. Selfiecity is a project that analyzes and compares 3,200 selfies of people from five major cities: Bangkok, Berlin, Moscow, New York, and Sao Paulo. These digital humanities projects are both extremely interesting and they both utilize different Digital humanities approaches.
Firstly, the primary digital humanities approach of the Transcribe Bentham project is undoubtedly crowdsourcing. Transcribe 
Bentham invites the public, specifically anyone interested, to access and transcribe Bentham’s work. The project doesn’t have a sole contributor, but rather many. This method allows for more transcriptions to become available in a shorter amount of time, simply because so many people are able to be working on the project at once. Additionally, the secondary approach this project is taking is digital edition. When the manuscripts are transcribed, they are typed onto a computer and
put on a platform for others to access. In this way, a once single non-digital copy of Bentham’s work becomes available for people to access infinitely digitally. This project seems to be very similar to our work with the Moravian Lives project in the way that we both will be transcribing manuscripts for others to access.
Secondly, the primary digital humanities approach used by Selfiecity is visualization. Selfiecity compiles selfies digitally and 
assembles them in a way that onlookers are able to see patterns between the images. Selfiecity uses “imageplots” which places the selfies on top of each other so that they oriented the same way. In the case of Selfiecity, the medium of the subject
matter largely determined the way in which the data was represented digitally. Selfiecity’s data was made up of images, so using a visualization approach was an obvious choice. Using visualization allowed Selfiecity to establish patterns between the selfies more easily and made their findings more apparent to others.
Overall, I feel that both Transcribe Bentham and Selfiecity’s digital humanities approaches were effective.
Samantha is currently a sophomore Markets, Innovation, and Design major in the Freeman College of Management at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. At Bucknell, Samantha works as a Student Development Officer for the Student Calling Program and is a member of Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Society, Women in Finance, and is treasurer for the Chi Mu Chapter of Chi Omega Sorority. She graduated from the Morristown-Beard School in Morristown, New Jersey in June 2017. Samantha resides in Harding, New Jersey and during the summer, Samantha works at Basking Ridge Country Club.