Digital History and its Potentials: A Microsyllabus
From the website: "The works I include below all push the reader to think how the historian’s craft is shaped by the geographies of the digital archive – where materials are located, how they are positioned relative to each other, and their newfound capacities to indicate multi-scalar processes unfolding simultaneously at transnational, local and embodied levels of experience. They also ask how professional history has been reshaped by the digital. For instance, can there be an open source history, as projects like Wikipedia grow in size and power? Simultaneously, all the authors below take a cautious view of the digital, asking how processes of digitisation might sometimes make invisible hierarchies of power and knowledge that are too proximate to miss in a physical archive."