Clio Wired

by Rosenzweig, Roy; Grafton, Anthony

• ISBN13: 9780231150859
• ISBN10: 0231150857
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-12-15
• Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Roy Rosenzweig (1950-2007) was professor of history and founder of the Center for History and Mew Media at George Mason University. Author of several books, including The Presence of the Past: Popular Uses of History in American Life (with David Thelen), and director of digital history projects, such as History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web and the September 11th Digital Archive, he received the Richard W. Lyman Award (presented by the National Humanities Center and the Rockefeller Foundation) for outstanding achievement in the use of information technology to advance scholarship and teaching in the humanities.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Scholarship As Community	p. ix
Note to Readers	p. xxi
Rethinking History in New Media
Scarcity or Abundance? Preserving the Past	p. 3
Web of Lies? Historical Knowledge on the Internet	p. 28
Wikipedia: Can History Be Open Source?	p. 51
Practicing History in New Media: Teaching, Researching, Presenting, Collecting
Historians and Hypertext: Is It More Than Hype?	p. 85
Rewiring the History and Social Studies Classroom: Needs, Frameworks, Dangers, Proposals	p. 92
The Riches of Hypertext for Scholarly Journals	p. 110
Should Historical Scholarship Be Free?	p. 117
Collecting History Online	p. 124
Surveying History in New Media
Brave New World or Blind Alley? American History on the World Wide Web	p. 155
Wizards, Bureaucrats, Warriors, and Hackers: Writing the History of the Internet	p. 179
The Road to Xanadu: Public and Private Pathways on the History Web	p. 203
Acknowledgments	p. 237
Notes	p. 241
Index	p. 297
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