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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dougherty, Jack, author.

Nawrotzki, Kristen, author.

Series:

Digital humanities (Ann Arbor, Mich.)

Digital humanities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History--Methodology.

History.

Academic writing--Data processing.

Academic writing.

History--Research--Data processing.

Historiography.

Electronic data processing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (283 pages): illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Cover Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

About the Web Version

Acknowledgments

Contents

List of Illustrations

Introduction

Part 1. Re-Visioning Historical Writing

Is (Digital) History More than an Argument about the Past?

Pasts in a Digital Age

Part 2. The Wisdom of Crowds(ourcing)

"I Nevertheless Am a Historian": Digital Historical Practice and Malpractice around Black Confederate Soldiers

The Historian's Craft, Popular Memory, and Wikipedia

The Wikiblitz: A Wikipedia Editing Assignment in a First-Year Undergraduate Class

Wikipedia and Women's History: A Classroom Experience

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

Toward Teaching the Introductory History Course, Digitally

Learning How to Write Analog and Digital History

Teaching Wikipedia without Apologies

Part 4. Writing with the Needles from Your Data Haystack

Historical Research and the Problem of Categories: Reflections on 10,000 Digital Note Cards

Creating Meaning in a Sea of Information: The Women and Social Movements Web Sites

The Hermeneutics of Data and Historical Writing

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

Visualizations and Historical Arguments

Putting Harlem on the Map

Pox and the City: Challenges in Writing a Digital History Game

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

Citizen Scholars: Facebook and the Co-creation of Knowledge

The HeritageCrowd Project: A Case Study in Crowdsourcing Public History

Part 7. Collaborative Writing: Yours, Mine, and Ours

The Accountability Partnership: Writing and Surviving in the Digital Age

Only Typing? Informal Writing, Blogging, and the Academy.

Conclusions: What We Learned from Writing History in the Digital Age

Contributors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

0-472-90024-2

0-472-07206-4

0-472-02991-6

OCLC:

859619365