Writing history in the digital age / Jack Dougherty, Kristen Nawrotzki, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dougherty, Jack, editor.

Nawrotzki, Kristen, editor.

Series:

Digital humanities.

Digital humanities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History--Methodology.

History.

Academic writing--Data processing.

Academic writing.

History--Research--Data processing.

Historiography.

Electronic data processing.

History--Research.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations.

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2013.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"Writing History in the Digital Age began as a one-month experiment in October 2010, featuring chapter-length essays by a wide array of scholars with the goal of rethinking traditional practices of researching, writing, and publishing, and the broader implications of digital technology for the historical profession. The essays and discussion topics were posted on a WordPress platform with a special plug-in that allowed readers to add paragraph-level comments in the margins, transforming the work into socially networked texts. This first installment drew an enthusiastic audience, over 50 comments on the texts, and over 1,000 unique visitors to the site from across the globe, with many who stayed on the site for a significant period of time to read the work. To facilitate this new volume, Jack Dougherty and Kristen Nawrotzki designed a born-digital, open-access platform to capture reader comments on drafts and shape the book as it developed. Following a period of open peer review and discussion, the finished product now presents 20 essays from a wide array of notable scholars, each examining (and then breaking apart and reexamining) how digital and emergent technologies have changed the ways that historians think, teach, author, and publish"

Contents:

Part 1 Re-Visioning Historical Writing

Is (Digital) History More than an Argument about the Past? / Sherman Dorn Dorn, Sherman 21

Pasts in a Digital Age / Stefan Tanaka Tanaka, Stefan 35

Part 2 The Wisdom of Crowds(ourcing)

"I Nevertheless Am a Historian": Digital Historical Practice and Malpractice around Black Confederate Soldiers / Leslie Madsen-Brooks Madsen-Brooks, Leslie 49

The Historian's Craft, Popular Memory, and Wikipedia / Robert S. Wolff Wolff, Robert S. 64

The Wikiblitz: A Wikipedia Editing Assignment in a First-Year Undergraduate Class / Shawn Graham Graham, Shawn 75

Wikipedia and Women's History: A Classroom Experience / Martha Saxton Saxton, Martha 86

Part 3 Practice What You Teach (and teach what you practice)

Toward Teaching the Introductory History Course, Digitally / Thomas Harbison Harbison, Thomas, Luke Waltzer Waltzer, Luke 97

Learning How to Write Analog and Digital History / Adrea Lawrence Lawrence, Adrea 110

Teaching Wikipedia without Apologies / Amanda Seligman Seligman, Amanda 121

Part 4 Writing with the Needles from Your Data Haystack

Historical Research and the Problem of Categories: Reflections on 10,000 Digital Note Cards / Ansley T. Erickson Erickson, Ansley T. 133

Creating Meaning in a Sea of Information: The Women and Social Movements Web Sites / Kathryn Kish Sklar Sklar, Kathryn Kish, Thomas Dublin Dublin, Thomas 146

The Hermeneutics of Data and Historical Writing / Fred Gibbs Gibbs, Fred, Trevor Owens Owens, Trevor 159

Part 5 See What I Mean? Visual, Spatial, and Game-Based History

Visualizations and Historical Arguments / John Theibault Theibault, John 173

Putting Harlem on the Map / Stephen Robertson Robertson, Stephen 186

Pox and the City: Challenges in Writing a Digital History Game / Laura Zucconi Zucconi, Laura, Ethan Watrall Watrall, Ethan, Hannah Ueno Ueno, Hannah, Lisa Rosner Rosner, Lisa 198

Part 6 Public History on the Web: If You Build It, Will They Come?

Writing Chicana/o History with the Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project / Oscar Rosales Castañeda Castañeda, Oscar Rosales 209

Citizen Scholars: Facebook and the Co-creation of Knowledge / Amanda Grace Sikarskie Sikarskie, Amanda Grace 216

The HeritageCrowd Project: A Case Study in Crowdsourcing Public History / Shawn Graham Graham, Shawn, Guy Massie Massie, Guy, Nadine Feuerherm Feuerherm, Nadine 222

Part 7 Collaborative Writing: Yours, Mine, and Ours

The Accountability Partnership: Writing and Surviving in the Digital Age / Natalia Mehlman Petrzela Petrzela, Natalia Mehlman, Sarah Manekin Manekin, Sarah 235

Only Typing? Informal Writing, Blogging, and the Academy / Alex Sayf Cummings Cummings, Alex Sayf, Jonathan Jarrett Jarrett, Jonathan 246.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Print version: Writing history in the digital age.

ISBN:

9780472029914

0472029916

OCLC:

859619365