Tag Archives: historians
Remembering the day.
When 50 academic and public historians, archivists, librarians, and directors and staff members of museums and historical societies in NY and NJ gathered together to try and figure out what would be the best way to historically collect and represent the significance … Continue reading
Twitter…Bitter?
Twitter is one of the many social networking and microblogging services that allows you to follow others. It collates announcements from two diferent people and encourages backchannel conversations. It allows for new connections and a sense of solidarity. In my … Continue reading
Internetkittens
As social media forefronts our high traffic communication vehicles, we have at last found a way to forever capture the sentiment of our times. Historians of the future will undoubtedly have their work cut out for them as they sift … Continue reading
Wait, what did I just read?
50 years from now, when historians are looking back at archived tweets from the billions of people of the past decades and on (being optimistic that twitter will be still around) they are going to think “Wait, what did I … Continue reading
Do I know you? No but I follow you on twitter
The world we live in today is so heavily dominated by technology, and the internet, it would only make sense of historians were able to look back and analyze what people actually did on the internet. Documenting every single Tweet … Continue reading
WikiTweet Era
All our lives up till recently, everyone, (not only historians) that have needed to do research or archive, have had to stick to the traditional way. We would go through stacks of books, newspapers, etc. Historians, in order to prove … Continue reading
Where they really that dumb?
Thats what historians will ask each other when reading our tweets that are being saved in the archives of the library of congress. Tweeting about going to the bathroom , or making a ham sandwich without any mustard will really … Continue reading
Choose Wisely
If Historians of the future choose to use evidence from our time, I hope they choose wisely. With the current technological advances its hard to say what has or has not been altered. Historical evidence is also changing because there … Continue reading
Will Historians Laugh?
One problem that comes with technology is that it can cause a nationwide epidemic. Ever since the dawn of the internet and websites like Facebook and Twitter and those other social networking sites, people have become too preoccupied with where … Continue reading
The Twitter Effect!
As present day historians have evidence of ancient times due to the recovery of hieroglyphs and symbols on walls and ancient books, future historians would use sites such as twitter and wikileaks for reference. Though future historians would have access … Continue reading