Digital History and New Media

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Study the use of technology and digital media in creating and sharing historical knowledge and engaging with public audiences.

Digital History: The application of technology to the study of history, including the use of digital tools for research, analysis, and presentation of historical data.
New Media: The use of digital technologies such as social media, blogs, podcasts, and other forms of online communication to engage with the public and promote historical awareness.
Open Access: A movement to make scholarly and educational materials freely available online to anyone with an internet connection.
Metadata: Descriptive information that provides context for digital objects, including authorship, subject matter, date, and other relevant details.
Text mining: The use of computational techniques to analyze large datasets of textual information.
Data visualization: The use of graphical and visual techniques to represent data in a more accessible and engaging format.
Geospatial analysis: The use of digital mapping tools to explore the spatial dimensions of historical data.
Social network analysis: Tools for visualizing and analyzing the relationships between individuals and groups within historical data.
Digital archives: Online collections of historical documents, recordings, and other media that are easily accessible to researchers and the general public.
Digital preservation: The process of ensuring that digital materials are stored and maintained in a way that ensures their long-term accessibility and usability.
Digital storytelling: The use of digital tools to create compelling narratives that draw on historical materials.
Copyright and intellectual property: The legal and ethical issues surrounding the use of digital materials, including issues of ownership, licensing, and fair use.
Digital humanities: An interdisciplinary field that uses digital tools and methods to explore questions about human culture and history.
Public history: The practice of engaging the public with history outside of traditional academic settings, through museums, historic sites, and other public-facing initiatives.
Digital public history: The use of digital tools to create and promote public history content, including online exhibits, mobile apps, and other interactive experiences.
Digital Archives: Collection of primary sources in digital form.
Digital Exhibitions: Online exhibits that share information visually about past events.
Blogs/Websites: Blogs that focus on historical events, publications that share information about history.
Digital Maps: Using digital mapping tools to create interactive maps that bring history to life.
Podcasts: Audio recordings that share information about historical events.
YouTube: Using audio-visual presentations to share information about historical events.
Social Media: Social media platforms to raise awareness among people about specific historical events.
Digital Humanities: Using digital tools to analyze historical data and help in research.
Digital Storytelling: Using digital tools to create and share stories about people, events and culture.
Video Games: Video games that are based on historical events.
"Digital history is the use of digital media to further historical analysis, presentation, and research."
"It is a branch of the digital humanities and an extension of quantitative history, cliometrics, and computing."
"Digital history is commonly digital public history, concerned primarily with engaging online audiences with historical content, or, digital research methods, that further academic research."
"Digital history outputs include: digital archives, online presentations, data visualizations, interactive maps, timelines, audio files, and virtual worlds to make history more accessible to the user."
"Recent digital history projects focus on creativity, collaboration, and technical innovation, text mining, corpus linguistics, network analysis, 3D modeling, and big data analysis."
"By utilizing these resources, the user can rapidly develop new analyses that can link to, extend, and bring to life existing histories."
"Digital public history is concerned primarily with engaging online audiences with historical content."
"Digital research methods further academic research in digital history."
"To make history more accessible to the user."
"Different outputs such as online presentations, data visualizations, interactive maps, timelines, audio files, and virtual worlds can be employed to make history more accessible."
"Recent digital history projects focus on creativity, collaboration, and technical innovation, text mining, corpus linguistics, network analysis, 3D modeling, and big data analysis."
"These resources allow for the rapid development of new analyses that can link to, extend, and bring existing histories to life."
"Digital history is an extension of quantitative history."
"Digital history is an extension of computing."
"Methods such as text mining, corpus linguistics, network analysis, 3D modeling, and big data analysis are employed in digital history projects."
"Digital public history focuses on engaging online audiences with historical content."
"Digital history utilizes digital media and research methods to further historical analysis, while traditional history may not utilize these resources."
"Digital archives provide a valuable resource for historians to access and analyze historical content."
"Digital history projects utilize tools such as data visualization, text mining, network analysis, and 3D modeling."
"To further historical analysis, presentation, and research through the use of digital media."