Abstract
Digital history spans disciplines and can take many forms. Computer technology started to revolutionize the study of history more than three decades ago, and yet genres and formats for recording and presenting history using digital media are not well established and we are only now starting to see large-scale benefits. New modes of publication, new methods for doing research, and new channels of communication are making historical research richer, more relevant, and globally accessible. Many applications of computer-based research and publication are natural extensions of the established techniques for researching and writing history. Others are consciously experimental. This chapter discusses the latest advances in the digital history field and explores how new media technologies are reconfiguring the study of the past.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Global Media,Culture, and Identity: Theory, Cases, and Approaches |
| Editors | Rohit Chopra, Radhika Gajjala |
| Place of Publication | U.S.A. |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Pages | 175-187 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780415877909 |
| Publication status | Published - 2011 |