Writing History in the Digital Age

Informationen zum Autor Jack Dougherty is Associate Professor of educational studies at Trinity College in Hartford! Connecticut! USA. He is collaborating with students and colleagues on a public history web book titled On The Line: How Schooling! Housing! and Civil Rights Shaped Hartford and Its Suburbs ! which has received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities.Kristen Nawrotzki is Lecturer at the University of Education in Heidelberg! Germany! and Senior Research Fellow in the Early Childhood Research Centre at Roehampton University in London! UK. Klappentext Writing History in the Digital Age began as a one-month experiment in October 2010! featuring chapter-length essays by a wide array of scholars with the goal of rethinking traditional practices of researching! writing! and publishing! and the broader implications of digital technology for the historical profession. The essays and discussion topics were posted on a WordPress platform with a special plug-in that allowed readers to add paragraph-level comments in the margins! transforming the work into socially networked texts. Zusammenfassung A born-digital project that asks how recent technologies have changed the ways that historians think! teach! author! and publish

Product details

• Authors: Jack Dougherty, Jack Nawrotzki Dougherty, Jack/ Nawrotzki Dougherty, Kristen Nawrotzki
• Publisher: University Of Michigan Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2013
• EAN: 9780472052066
• ISBN: 978-0-472-05206-6
• No. of pages: 298
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 24 mm
• Series: Digital Humanities; Digital Humanities
• Subject: Non-fiction book