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Introduction To Focus Issue: Collections In A Digital Age, Lauren Tilton, Brent M. Rogers
Introduction To Focus Issue: Collections In A Digital Age, Lauren Tilton, Brent M. Rogers
Rhetoric and Communication Studies Faculty Publications
In Spring 2015, a working group engaged in questions at the intersection of digital and public history at the annual National Council on Public History (NCPH) meeting held in Nashville, Tennessee. The vibrant discussion focused on the exciting and important ways by which public historians make digital, public history. Because a significant amount of work has centered on digitizing and augmenting historical archives, this special issue explores digital approaches to physical collections. Inflected by the contributors’ positioning in public history, the issue highlights how digital approaches are shaped by questions of access, audience, collaboration, interpretation, and materiality. From that discussion …
Technological Revolutions I Have Known, Edward L. Ayers
Technological Revolutions I Have Known, Edward L. Ayers
History Faculty Publications
Historians are trained to see things in the context of change, but even a historian might find it hard to gain a sense of perspective on the technological changes sweeping over us these days. The machinery itself is evolving with astonishing speed, and the larger culture seems obsessed with the evolution. Articles on the latest high-tech stock miracle fill the business pages while advertisements for automobiles and sport leagues bear their World Wide Web addresses like badges of honor.
The Pasts And Futures Of Digital History, Edward L. Ayers
The Pasts And Futures Of Digital History, Edward L. Ayers
History Faculty Publications
The historical profession approaches new information technologies with mixed emotions. Differences of resources, temperament, and generation create both determined resistance and eager acceptance as well as widespread ambivalence. While it is increasingly unusual for people working in history to resist the obvious benefits of the Internet and e-mail, it is even more unusual for Internet users to pursue the full implications and possibilities of the new technology. The great majority of us take a few things from the menu of possibilities and leave the rest untouched.