Writing History in the Digital Age /

"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...

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Other Authors: Nawrotzki, Kristen, Dougherty, Jack
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • Is (digital) history more than an argument about the past? / Sherman Dorn
  • Pasts in a digital age / Stefan Tanaka
  • I nevertheless am a historian : digital historical practice and malpractice around black Confederate soldiers / Leslie Madsen-Brooks
  • The historian's craft, popular memory, and Wikipedia / Robert S. Wolff
  • The Wikiblitz : a Wikipedia editing assignment in a first-year undergraduate class / Shawn Graham
  • Wikipedia and women's history : a classroom experience / Martha Saxton
  • Toward teaching the introductory history course, digitally / Thomas Harbison, Luke Waltzer
  • Learning how to write analog and digital history / Adrea Lawrence
  • Teaching Wikipedia without apologies / Amanda Seligman
  • Historical research and the problem of categories : reflections on 10,000 digital note cards / Ansley T. Erickson
  • Creating meaning in a sea of information : the Women and social movements Web sites / Kathryn Kish Sklar, Thomas Dublin
  • The hermeneutics of data and historical writing / Fred Gibbs, Trevor Owens
  • Visualizations and historical arguments / John Theibault
  • Putting Harlem on the map / Stephen Robertson
  • Pox and the city : challenges in writing a digital history game / Laura Zucconi, Ethan Watrall, Hannah Ueno, Lisa Rosner
  • Writing Chicana/o history with the Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project / Oscar Rosales Castañeda
  • Citizen scholars : Facebook and the co-creation of knowledge / Amanda Grace Sikarskie
  • The HeritageCrowd Project : a case study in crowdsourcing public history / Shawn Graham, Guy Massie, Nadine Feuerherm
  • The accountability partnership : writing and surviving in the digital age / Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Sarah Manekin
  • Only typing? : informal writing, Blogging, and the academy / Alex Sayf Cummings, Jonathan Jarrett
  • Conclusions : what we learned from Writing history in the digital age / Jack Dougherty, Kristen Nawrotzi, Charlotte D. Rochez, Timothy Burke.