This week’s digital storytelling module was the most fun by far. We listened to podcasts, read compelling Twine stories, played narrative games, and in class constructed our own Twine scenario. I found the COVID-19 Twine by Megan Zahneis to be particularly compelling because of its ability to bring humanity and an understanding of lived…
This week’s readings on historical geographic information systems (HGIS) helped us think about the ways in which HGIS could be useful as a tool for historical analysis as well as a way to open access to layers of historical and geographic data to a broader network of historians for their analysis and interpretation. HGIS…
When I started teaching as an adjunct, it didn’t matter that the pay was atrocious – I suddenly had access to scholarly journals! That was worth its weight in gold. As a practitioner, I had no access to the latest conversations or research in my field – I had to piece together memberships with…
This week, I was most interested in the emphasis on collaboration in digital humanities projects, and how atypical this is for many historians, who are incentivized in part by the tenure process to focus on single-author projects. Gabriele Griffin and Matt Steven Hayler’s piece on “Collaboration in Digital Humanities Research – Persisting Silences” gave…
Bonjour a tous! This week we discussed digitization and data, noting warnings from historian Lara Putnam not to let the ease of access to digitized data from around the world become “drive-by transnationalism,” and advice from Sophie Ziegler to be more than data brokers in our research, but rather “caregivers, bound to records creators,…
Hello everyone! I’m an incoming History PhD student, returning to school after a career in international development and gender justice work. My research at GMU will focus on U.S. history and histories of women and gender, social movements, and foreign relations. I’m approaching Clio Wired with trepidation. I actively try to remove tech from…