History, Disrupted

How Social Media and the World Wide Web Have Changed the Past

Jason Steinhauer (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

VIII, 160 Seiten

2021 | 1st ed. 2022
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-85116-3 (ISBN)

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The Internet has changed the past. Social media, Wikipedia, mobile networks, and the viral and visual nature of the Web have inundated the public sphere with historical information and misinformation, changing what we know about our history and History as a discipline. This is the first book to chronicle how and why it matters. Why does History matter at all? What role do history and the past play in our democracy? Our economy? Our understanding of ourselves? How do questions of history intersect with today's most pressing debates about technology; the role of the media; journalism; tribalism; education; identity politics; the future of government, civilization, and the planet? At the start of a new decade, in the midst of growing political division around the world, this information is critical to an engaged citizenry. As we collectively grapple with the effects of technology and its capacity to destabilize our societies, scholars, educators and the general public should be aware of how the Web and social media shape what we know about ourselves - and crucially, about our past.

lt;b>Jason Steinhauer is the founding director of the Lepage Center for History in the Public Interest at Villanova University, USA. A public historian with over twenty years of experience in major cultural and historical institutions in the US, Steinhauer is the creator of the new field of History Communication, which examines how history is communicated on the World Wide Web. He has written for CNN, TIME, The Washington Post, Poynter, Inside Higher Ed, the Conversation and the Foreign Policy Research Institute (where he is a Senior Fellow). He has also delivered lectures overseas on behalf of the US Department of State, created a history podcast for the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, and appeared on C-SPAN's American History TV.

1. Introduction.- 2. e-History: Not Quite History, Not Quite The Past.- 3. The Crowd-Sourced Past.- 4. Nostalgia On-Demand.- 5. The Viral Past.- 6. The Visual Past.- 7. The Newsworthy Past.- 8. The Storytelling Past.- 9. History.AI.- 10. Does History Have A Future?.

Erscheinungsdatum	09.12.2021
Zusatzinfo	VIII, 160 p.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	226 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Schlagworte	amateur historian • Communications revolution • Democracy • digital humanities • Historical studies • internet and politics • mobile technology • professional historian • Public History • Science Communication • Self-communication • teaching history • Tribal • Viral • Visual • World Wide Web
ISBN-10	3-030-85116-8 / 3030851168
ISBN-13	978-3-030-85116-3 / 9783030851163
Zustand	Neuware