Technology and the Historian: Transformations in the Digital Age (Topics in the Digital Humanities)

Crymble, Adam

ISBN 10: 0252085698 / ISBN 13: 9780252085697

Published by University of Illinois Press, 2021

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Title: Technology and the Historian: ...

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Publication Date: 2021

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Acceptable

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Synopsis:

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.

About the Author:

Adam Crymble is an editor of Programming Historian and a lecturer of digital humanities at University College London.