Class Notes for November 26

November 26, 2012 · by · in Class Notes, Social Media

Announcements

  • Progress Report emailed earlier today
  • Parameters for final group project, individual paper, and group presentation

Audio Project Review

Social Media – Reading

  • Oscar Rosales Castañeda, “Writing Chicana/o History with the Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project,” in Writing History in the Digital Age, 2012.
    • Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project
    • Project components
      • oral histories
      • films and slide shows
      • research reports
    • What is the place of historical argument (E.g., regarding segregation, diaspora, etc.) in this project?
    • What is the role of collaboration in this project?
    • How is this project social? How does it combine elements of social media with academic history?
  • Amanda Grace Sikarskie, “Citizen Scholars: Facebook and the Co-Creation of Knowledge,” in Writing History in the Digital Age, 2012.
    • The Quilt Index
    • Use of the term “Citizen Scholars”
    • What is gained in crowd sourcing a project such as this?  What is lost?  
    • What are the advantages and disadvantages of using Facebook for handling the social media aspect of this project?
    • What role should “lay historians” have in producing history? What is the most effective relationship between lay and professional historians? 

Final Project Progress Reports