Digital History at UMass Amherst
by YURI GAMA
Today’s topic lies on reviewing public history websites. In the light of Paula Petrik’s conceptions of web design and Daniel Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig’s ideas on digital history, I chose to review the following two websites: the international Public History Weekly and the outdated http://www.publichistory.org/.
The American Museum of Natural History has a series of apps attached to it. Among them you have Dinosaurs Iphone App, Creatures of Light, Pterosaurs: The Card Game, MicroRangers, Pterosaurs: Flight in the Age of Dinosaurs, The Power of Poison: Be a Detective, Bernard Family Hall of the North American Mammals, and Beyond Planet Earth. You can check them out on this link http://www.amnh.org/apps. However, here I’m specifically reviewing the app called Explorer. The Explorer is an app supported by Bloomberg Philantropies, founded by the ex-mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg. The app has the main objective of presenting the museum to the largest possible amount of people in the world. In this sense, the user has two options of function: one with the user browsing at the museum and other with the user browsing outside.
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Welcome! The class started!
The first talk set the foundation of main discussions and concerns of theory and practice in Digital History. After some basic reflections, I decided to dig on YouTube sources that delve on our main subject in this site. Interesting channels to subscribe are the following ones:
All of them share videos of TED Talks, conversations, interviews, speeches and lectures of professionals, scholars, writers and researchers discussing and developing together the meaning, challenges, pros and cons of Digital History.