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Digital Discussions Episode 1
Pilot Episode This the pilot episode of our podcast titled ‘Digital Discussions’, in which we discuss topics about the digital, humanities, and digital humanities. In this...
Continue reading...Writing history in the age of Big Data
Our age is truly the age of Big Data. Every day we tweet, write posts and upload photos to Facebook and Instagram and send messages through...
Continue reading...Digitally preserving and reconstructing cultural heritage
In the last couple of years we have seen multiple instances in which cultural heritage was destroyed, either due to intentional destruction by humans or because...
Continue reading...Assassin’s Creed, between game play and history
Today I would like to say a few things about Assassin’s Creed. The main motivation for this choice is personal interest and a slight obsession with...
Continue reading...Video games as historical tool
As I am using these articles to explore the opportunities of several digital media for historians, I would like to focus today on the subject of...
Continue reading...Creating history through YouTube
In my article from last week, I wrote about the censorship of historical footage which was uploaded on YouTube. In that article I tried to explain...
Continue reading...Ancestors on trial: historical court records online
Did you ever wonder if one of your ancestors has been to court, or maybe even served time in prison? With the help of online databases,...
Continue reading...The unequal distribution of a wealth of digital media
Historians and GIS
In the field of history, GIS (Geographic Information System) is a well-known type of software. Already the term HGIS (the extra H stands for historical) is...
Continue reading...Digital photo manipulation
“A picture is worth a thousand words.” Although academics should prefer to read a thousand words above just looking at an image to draw conclusions, there...
Continue reading...”After all, tomorrow is another day.”
The last blog already. And what better way to start it then with a quote from Margaret Mitchells Gone With the Wind? For this last blog...
Continue reading...All the possibilities
So, all these weeks I have been blogging about all these different ways to make history fun and more modern using digital means. Today I would...
Continue reading...Rewriting History
Games with historic themes have been popular since the early beginnings. Popular historic game titles are Command & Conquer, Rome: Total War and Age of Empires....
Continue reading...Something lost. . .
Usually I write this really upbeat blog, but today will be different. So prepare yourself for a change of pace. Normally I talk about all the...
Continue reading...A meme a day keeps the doctor away
“An image, video, piece of text, etc., typically humorous in nature, that is copied and spread rapidly by Internet users, often with slight variations.” This definition...
Continue reading...Venice Time Machine
Probably one of the coolest digital historical projects I’ve ever run into is the Venice Time Machine. Before we talk any further, you should watch a...
Continue reading...The future of the historian
May 2 1968 riots broke out in France. Demonstrations started at Paris University and soon spread all over the country, drawing in more students, factory workers,...
Continue reading...A Job Well Done
In the blog I wrote last week I talked about the fact that the field of studying old cultures is a somewhat old-fashioned one. And while...
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