Writing History in the Digital Age.

• Superior document: Digital Humanities Series
• Author: Dougherty, Jack.
• TeilnehmendeR: Nawrotzki, Kristen.
• Place / Publishing House: Ann Arbor : : University of Michigan Press,, 2013.; Ã2013.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Digital Humanities Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (296 pages)

A born-digital project that asks how recent technologies have changed the ways that historians think, teach, author, and publish.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- About the Web Version -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Part 1. Re-Visioning Historical Writing -- Is (Digital) History More than an Argument about the Past? -- Pasts in a Digital Age -- Part 2. The Wisdom of Crowds(ourcing) -- "I Nevertheless Am a Historian": Digital Historical Practice and Malpractice around Black Confederate Soldiers -- The Historian's Craft, Popular Memory, and Wikipedia -- The Wikiblitz: A Wikipedia Editing Assignment in a First-Year Undergraduate Class -- Wikipedia and Women's History: A Classroom Experience -- Part 3. Practice What You Teach (and teach what you practice) -- Toward Teaching the Introductory History Course, Digitally -- Learning How to Write Analog and Digital History -- Teaching Wikipedia without Apologies -- Part 4. Writing with the Needles from Your Data Haystack -- Historical Research and the Problem of Categories: Reflections on 10,000 Digital Note Cards -- Creating Meaning in a Sea of Information: The Women and Social Movements Web Sites -- The Hermeneutics of Data and Historical Writing -- Part 5. See What I Mean? Visual, Spatial, and Game-Based History -- Visualizations and Historical Arguments -- Putting Harlem on the Map -- Pox and the City: Challenges in Writing a Digital History Game -- Part 6. Public History on the Web: If You Build It, Will They Come? -- Writing Chicana/o History with the Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project -- Citizen Scholars: Facebook and the Co-creation of Knowledge -- The HeritageCrowd Project: A Case Study in Crowdsourcing Public History -- Part 7. Collaborative Writing: Yours, Mine, and Ours -- The Accountability Partnership: Writing and Surviving in the Digital Age -- Only Typing? Informal Writing, Blogging, and the Academy.

Conclusions: What We Learned from Writing History in the Digital Age -- Contributors.