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Record Nr.

UNINA9910795648503321

Autore

Crymble Adam

Titolo

Technology and the historian : transformations in the digital age / / Adam Crymble

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, Illinois : , : University of Illinois Press, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

0-252-04371-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 online resource.)

Collana

Topics in the digital humanities

Illinois scholarship online

Disciplina

902.854678

Soggetti

History - Computer network resources

History - Research - Methodology

Historiography - Methodology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Also issued in print: 2021.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Historians have seen their field transformed by the digital age. Research agendas, teaching and learning, scholarly communication, the nature of the archive - all have undergone a sea change that in and of itself constitutes a fascinating digital history. Yet technology's role in the field's development remains a glaring blind spot among digital scholars. Adam Crymble mines private and web archives, social media, and oral histories to show how technology and historians have come together. Using case studies, Crymble merges histories and philosophies of the field, separating issues relevant to historians from activities in the broader digital humanities movement.