Welcome to Digital History!
This space houses the work of HIS 3460: Digital History, a course co-taught by Thomas Harbison and Luke Waltzer at Baruch College during the Fall 2012 semester.
Here’s a description of the course:
This course will explore current methods in the field, and also imagine future possibilities. You will study a range of theories of new media and employ them as you collect, analyze, and produce historical scholarship. Throughout the course we will assess how and why the creation, archiving, and interpretation of historical data are changing in the face of new forms of digital communication. We will also examine how these tools impact the primary goal of the historian: producing narratives that explain historical change. You will learn about and work with emerging tools in the areas of data mining, graphic information systems, image and audio production, and social media. With classmates, you will produce a digital project using data and artifacts that historicize the 2012 presidential election.
Much of this course will be open to the public, and outside commenting is welcome and encouraged.
See our syllabus for additional detail.
Looking forward to a great semester!
“History always repeat itself”
History is the perspective on progress and change.
History becomes history.
History describes cultural and social changes.
History is change with perspectives from a point of view. Technology is one of the change which brings us to the new era of the digital age
Hey all– thanks for you comments so far. Attempting a definition of history in your comment is certainly fine, but so is a comment that just says “hey!” We just want to make sure everyone can access the blog at this point (and don’t want anyone to feel that they can’t leave a comment because they don’t have a fresh definition in mind!!)
Looking forward to this course
Logged in, fired up for some digital history.
Hey!
Question, why does the “How to get an A in this class” link send me to youtube and Rick Astley’s “Never gonna give you up” song?
37 bonus points to whomever can explain that peculiarity to Estevan…
Hey.
Im gonna attempt to answer Estevans question by saying that its a sarcastic way of saying that the professors are never going to give up the information to get an A or sarcastically saying that no one in the class will get an A. (shooting in the dark)
Not Every Visual Experiment Requires
Good Or Negative Notions As
Grades. Instead, View Everything
You Observe Under
Utmost Precision.
@Eliezer: not quite. There’s a specific name for what that link does.
looking forward to learning
Lookin’ forward to this class!
hi
Bonjour.
Hey.
I am a little lost (and I really am usually very efficient with this stuff) so I am excited that at least I know I will be able to learn a ton on this semester. May this serve as an invitation for a good soul to have mercy and offer a helping hand.
Looking forward to this class. Finally figured out this site!
Better late than never.