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Clio Wired: The Future of the Past in the Digital Age
Roy Rosenzweig
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Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: HBA; UT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 464. The Future of the Past in the Digital Age. 336 pages, illustrations. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: HBA; UT. Dimension: 224 x 155 x 18. Weight: 488.
In these pathbreaking essays, Roy Rosenzweig charts the impact of new media on teaching, researching, preserving, presenting, and understanding history. Negotiating between the "cyberenthusiasts" who champion technological breakthroughs and the "digital skeptics" who fear the end of traditional humanistic scholarship, Rosenzweig re-envisions the practices and professional rites of academic historians while analyzing and advocating for the achievements of amateur historians. While he addresses the perils of "doing history" online, Rosenzweig eloquently identifies the promises of digital work, detailing innovative strategies for powerful searches in primary and secondary sources, the increased opportunities for dialogue and debate, and, most of all, the ... Read more
In these pathbreaking essays, Roy Rosenzweig charts the impact of new media on teaching, researching, preserving, presenting, and understanding history. Negotiating between the "cyberenthusiasts" who champion technological breakthroughs and the "digital skeptics" who fear the end of traditional humanistic scholarship, Rosenzweig re-envisions the practices and professional rites of academic historians while analyzing and advocating for the achievements of amateur historians. While he addresses the perils of "doing history" online, Rosenzweig eloquently identifies the promises of digital work, detailing innovative strategies for powerful searches in primary and secondary sources, the increased opportunities for dialogue and debate, and, most of all, the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231150859
SKU
V9780231150859
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About Roy Rosenzweig
Roy Rosenzweig (1950-2007) was professor of history and founder of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. Author of several books, including The Presence of the Past: Popular Uses of History in American Life (with David Thelen), and director of digital history projects, such as History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web and the ... Read more
Reviews for Clio Wired: The Future of the Past in the Digital Age
For the archivist, these essays ask provocative questions and point to some interesting opportunities, both for repositories and users.
Christine D'Arpa Archival Issues teachers esepcially should welcome this collection Journal of American History
Christine D'Arpa Archival Issues teachers esepcially should welcome this collection Journal of American History