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Tag Archives: digital humanities

Every tool is a weapon: Why the digital humanities movement needs public history

Posted on November 2, 2012 by Mary Rizzo
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keyhole imagePublic history has been at the forefront of democratizing historical knowledge and utilizing nontraditional modes of inquiry—from oral history to personal archives—since its inception. In that time, it—we—have substantially affected the larger practice of history in the academy.[1]  But, to vastly oversimplify, the promises and possibilities of the digital have risen as a challenge to all historians to rethink how we disseminate our work and, at the same time, to spur conversations that question and critique the role of technology in the 21st century. Continue reading →

Posted in Activism, In the Academy | Tagged digital history, digital humanities, digital media, education, media, methods, public engagement, scholarship, THATCamp | 5 Replies

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