In this Book
- Writing History in the Digital Age
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: University of Michigan Press
- Series: Digital Humanities
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Writing History in the Digital Age began as a “what-if” experiment by posing a question: How have Internet technologies influenced how historians think, teach, author, and publish? To illustrate their answer, the contributors agreed to share the stages of their book-in-progress as it was constructed on the public web.
To facilitate this innovative volume, editors Jack Dougherty and Kristen Nawrotzki designed a born-digital, open-access, and open peer review process to capture commentary from appointed experts and general readers. A customized WordPress plug-in allowed audiences to add page- and paragraph-level comments to the manuscript, transforming it into a socially networked text. The initial six-week proposal phase generated over 250 comments, and the subsequent eight-week public review of full drafts drew 942 additional comments from readers across different parts of the globe.
The finished product now presents 20 essays from a wide array of notable scholars, each examining (and then breaking apart and reexamining) if and how digital and emergent technologies have changed the historical profession.
Table of Contents
- Title Page
- pp. i-iii
- Copyright Page
- p. iv
- Acknowledgments
- pp. vii-viii
- Illustrations
- pp. xiii-xiv
- Introduction
- pp. 1-18
- Part 1. Re-Visioning Historical Writing
- Pasts in a Digital Age
- pp. 35-46
- Part 2. The Wisdom of Crowds(ourcing)
- Part 3. Practice What You Teach (and teach what you practice)
- Teaching Wikipedia without Apologies
- pp. 121-130
- Part 4. Writing with the Needles from Your Data Haystack
- Part 5. See What I Mean? Visual, Spatial, and Game-Based History
- Visualizations and Historical Arguments
- pp. 173-185
- Putting Harlem on the Map
- pp. 186-197
- Part 6. Public History on the Web: If You Build It, Will They Come?
- Part 7. Collaborative Writing: Yours, Mine, and Ours
- Contributors
- pp. 279-284
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Copyright
2013