Are social media capable of tackling issues that deal with the past, or do they merely constitute a series of visual icons on web pages that allow us to share what we see and read with a selected choice of virtual “friends”? Could it be that we perceive these logos as also representing a portal that promotes user-generated content and participatory culture?….
Category: Digital Public History
Per il 71° anniversario della Resistenza italiana (2016), riparliamo di “Firenze in Guerra 1940-1944”, la Mostra del 70° anniversario (2015) ospitata a Palazzo Medici-Riccardi
Mostra per il 70° della Resistenza Italiana, Palazzo Medici Riccardi, ottobre 2014-gennaio 2015 e 25 Aprile – 28 Giugno 2015 e sito Web della Mostra: 1940-1944 – FIRENZE IN GUERRA – http://www.firenzeinguerra.com/
Catalogo della Mostra a cura di Francesca Cavarocchi e Valeria Galimi: Firenze in Guerra, 1940-1944. Catalogo della mostra storico-documentaria. (Palazzo Medici Riccardi, ottobre 2014-gennaio 2015)., Firenze: Firenze University Press, 2014.
A “Memoria e Ricerca” roundtable stresses absence of Public History in David Armitage & Jo Guldi “History Manifesto”
There is a widespread feeling that public funds and private sponsorship should be used for what –many people think– matters in society. Economists, for example, enjoy broad acceptance as public mediators and interpreters of our contemporary world. University programs in the Humanities, by contrast, are facing a worldwide crisis. In Japan departments are closing and this also means that the Humanities are facing an identity crisis. Such a crisis is acute in the USA where, in order to maintain university programmes, you have to provide an answer to the «What for?» question and prove immediate relevance for the job market and society at large.
Social Media are “a group of Internet-based applications that build on the ideological and technological foundations of Web 2.0, and that allow the creation and exchange of user-generated content.” They facilitate various forms of web communication between individuals and communities. They can bring users together to discuss common issues and to share traces of the past. Local communities’ engagement with the past, mediated or not, are made possible through Web 2.0 practices. New virtual contacts could be built when communities are no longer present in physical spaces.
Digital Public History sessions at the XXII International Congress of Historical Sciences (ICHS-CISH)
Academic historians promoted a historic first international reflection on the Digital Turn in History during the XXII International Congress of Historical Sciences organized...
European History Primary Sources, the portal for accessing digital primary sources for the History of Europe from the medieval period to nowadays grew a lot during the academic year 2014-2015. In June 2015 the number of followers of the EHPS Facebook page grew up to more then 2.000.