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Charting the evolution of practicing digital history Historians have seen their field transformed by the digital age. Research agendas, teaching and learning, scholarly communication, the nature of the archive-all have undergone a sea change that in and of itself constitutes a fascinating digital history. Yet technology's role in the field's development remains a glaring blind spot among digital scholars. Adam Crymble mines private and web archives, social media, and oral histories to show how technology and historians have come together. Using case studies, Crymble merges histories and philosophies of the field, separating issues relevant to historians from activities in the broader digital humanities movement. Key themes include the origin myths of digital historical research; a history of mass digitization of sources; how technology influenced changes in the curriculum; a portrait of the self-learning system that trains historians and the problems with that system; how blogs became a part of outreach and academic writing; and a roadmap for the continuing study of history in the digital era.Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Illinois Press
ISBN-139780252043710
eBay Product ID (ePID)10046672068
Product Key Features
Number of Pages272 Pages
Publication NameTechnology and the Historian: Transformations in the Digital Age
LanguageEnglish
SubjectComputer Science, Classical Studies, History
Publication Year2021
TypeTextbook
AuthorAdam Crymble
SeriesTopics in the Digital Humanities
Dimensions
Item Height229 mm
Item Width152 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Title_AuthorAdam Crymble