Clio Wired – The Future of the Past in the Digital Age - Couverture rigide

Rosenzweig, Roy

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0231150865 ISBN 13 : 9780231150866

Editeur : Columbia University Press, 2011

Synopsis

Unusual book

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

In these visionary 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 "digitalskeptics" who fear the end of traditional humanistic scholarship, Rosenzweig re-envisions academic historians' practices and professional rites while analyzing and advocating for amateur historians' achievements.

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 unprecedented access afforded by the Internet. Rosenzweig draws attention to the opening up of the historical record to new voices, the availability of documents and narratives to new audiences, and the attractions of digital technologies for new and diverse practitioners. Though he celebrates digital history's democratizing influences, Rosenzweig also argues that we can only ensure the future of the past in this digital age by actively resisting the efforts of corporations to put up gates and profit from the Web.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Columbia University Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0231150865
• ISBN 13: 9780231150866
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 384