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In these pathbreaking essays, Roy Rosenzweig charts the impact of new media on teaching, researching, preserving, presenting, and understanding history. Negotiating between the "cyberenthusiasts" who champion technological breakthroughs and the "digital skeptics" who fear the end of traditional humanistic scholarship, Rosenzweig re-envisions the practices and professional rites of academic historians while analyzing and advocating for the achievements of amateur historians. While he addresses the perils of "doing history" online, Rosenzweig eloquently identifies the promises of digital work, detailing innovative strategies for powerful searches in primary and secondary sources, the increased opportunities for dialogue and debate, and, most of all, the unprecedented access afforded by the Internet. Rosenzweig draws attention to the opening up of the historical record to new voices, the availability of documents and narratives to new audiences, and the attractions of digital technologies for new and diverse practitioners. Though he celebrates digital history's democratizing influences, Rosenzweig also argues that the future of the past in this digital age can only be ensured through the active resistance to efforts by corporations to control access and profit from the Web.
Many professional and hobby-related things have been written posing the question of how historians will deal with research and presentation in this world where traditional sources of information and methods of delivering research change so much and so quickly. Rosenzweig examines "new media" and what it means for historians, professional or amateur.First he looks at the change in quantity and quality of information available through new media. Is the large amount an asset, or does it obscure the quality of what is there? What about a forum for people who wish to post their own understanding of history, (Wikipedia) allowing any to access it whether the reader is capable of properly evaluating the evidence or conclusions?But then, does this new media help historians reach a new audience? is it a great tool for teaching? Does it give researchers access to traditional scholarship without the need to travel to many libraries or wait on articles to come through inter-library loan?Will this new world change the "business model" (my term) for history? The ethics? Does it lead to a future where historians can thrive, or will this species become extinct and be replaced by a new breed of scolar/teacher/debater?Well written. easy to read yet thought provoking. . .
