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September 18, 2014

Anthropological Musings

Upon beginning this week’s reading, I was pleasantly surprised to discover that my anthropological background has now proven relevant in my historical studies. Indeed, it is the other social sciences that came into focus as I made my way through more of John Tosh’s The Pursuit of History, the first two chapters of Geoff Eley’s(…)

laura

September 14, 2014

New Form of Knowledge

Both Weinberger and the authors of Writing History in the Digital Age discuss characteristics of Internet and how these characteristics apply to historical writing. They put much effort on openness of Internet, such as avoiding gatekeepers, increasing diversity and improving collaboration. The most interesting question for me is: as they all indicate Internet changes our […]

hungyin

September 13, 2014

History and the Web

“It Isn’t Writing, It’s Only Typing” Truman Capote’s slam of Kerouac’s writing sums how I have felt about blogging in the past. Prior to this…

davidatkins Atkins, blogging, History, Tanaka, Weinberger

September 13, 2014

Who Keeps the Bad Ideas Away, Now that the Gatekeepers are Gone?

By this point, we’ve all accepted, or at least heavily considered, the idea that there is no such thing as objectivity and that what some…

Claire G.

September 13, 2014

“Expanding and Blurring:” What Becomes History in a Digital Age?

The first blog post I composed for History 5104 was just a few weeks ago, and it was an extremely stressful experience for me. Not only was I worried about whether or not I’d satisfactorily completed my assignment, I was … Continue reading →

saraevenson

September 13, 2014

Understanding Being a Digital Age Immigrant

When I was sitting in our GTA workshop class the week before actual classes started, I was introduced to a term which I had never heard before. This moniker was “digital age immigrant.” You see, that explains what I feel that I am right now. I grew up in an age when there were no computers in […]

Tiny Week 2: History past: Historical Thinking/Historiography

September 13, 2014

An Unexpected Network

Following my critical analysis of Weinberger’s use of the term ‘expert’ in my last post, I now consider his discussion on the fluidity and interactivity of the internet. I find these concepts making a deep impression on me though leading to more mixed conclusions about the nature of books versus the internet than those of […]

picasso13

September 12, 2014

Older, Not Necessarily Wiser

You know, there are advantages to being older. I usually wouldn’t say this; I like to be somewhat delusional about my age. You know the old cliche “You are as old as you feel.” Well….. on second thought, let’s not … Continue reading →

faithskiles

September 12, 2014

The Future of History: Only the Good

This week’s readings again focused on the digital age and the impact the Internet is having on the subject of history, albeit in an overall more positive manner. More specifically, they attempted to answer the following questions found in the introduction of Writing History in the Digital Age: “Has the digital revolution transformed how we(…)

laura

September 12, 2014

As Historians, Do We Love Diversity? Apparently…NOPE.

“It seems we love diversity until we see what it actually looks like.” (Weinberger, 71) Ohhhhhh shitttttt. Called out. I know Weinberger is talking mostly about diversity in terms of decision making, opinions, and knowledge bases, but I have a Continue reading →

Kate Good

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  • Comment on Animals, Agency, and History by Tiny December 2, 2014
    Hey Laura, After hearing about how you plan on writing about the agency of dogs in the Great War, I now have a better understanding and grasp of your subject matter. I am a little surprised to read that you are questioning animals having agency in hist... Continue reading →
    Tiny
  • Comment on Rosie, Buddy, Agency and History by Tiny December 2, 2014
    Hi Faith, As usual you provided a great piece of writing in my opinion. I always look forward to your posts because they seem to make me think back to personal experiences of my own in many cases. In this post, I was taken back to many different memories of all of my four legged […]
    Tiny
  • Comment on Human Exceptionalism by Tiny December 2, 2014
    Hey David, I was glad to see that I was not the only one in the class that was wondering about animals and their agency or interaction with humans. This week's reading were very eye opening, as I had never really looked at the theory that we were just animals ourselves, having evolved to our […]
    Tiny
  • Comment on Lying down with the dogs by Claire G. December 2, 2014
    Hi Carmen, So do you see agency as a continuum, with natural disasters, urban landscapes, and other non-living shapers of history on one end and humans on the other? Claire Continue reading →
    Claire G.
  • Comment on Animals in History by Claire G. December 2, 2014
    Hi Sara, I was also pleased that we did this reading after "On Deep History and the Brain," because integrating animals into the study of history requires interdisciplinarity including psychology and the natural sciences. What do you think about how both week's readings position people in relation to other beings and forces? (Also, I think […]
    Claire G.

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