H9808A 2009 01 Intro

Return to UWO History 9808A Digital History Fall 2009

Bottom line: don't panic.

• Ahmed, "The Polyglot Manifesto I," and "The Polyglot Manifesto II," Chapati Mystery (16-17 May 2006).
  

• Carr, "Is Google Making Us Stupid? What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains," The Atlantic (Jul/Aug 2008).
  

• Cohen, "Professors, Start Your Blogs," dancohen.org (21 Aug 2006).
  

• Cohen, "Leave the Blogging to Us," dancohen.org (5 Dec 2008).
  

• Cohen and Rosenzweig, "Introduction: Promises and Perils of Digital History," Digital History. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 2005.
  

• Cohen, Frisch, Gallagher, Mintz, Sword, Taylor, Thomas and Turkel, "Interchange: The Promise of Digital History," Journal of American History 95, no. 2 (Sep 2008).
  

• Gralla, "Ch 1 What is the Internet?", "Ch 2 How Computer Networks Send Data Across the Internet", "Ch 3 How TCP/IP Works"
  

• Kheraj, "Will Twitter Kill My Chance of Getting an Academic Job? Canadian History and Environment (7 Aug 2009).
  

• Lutz, "Digital Literacy: What Every Graduate Student Needs to Know" CHA Bulletin (2009).
  

• Schwartz, "The Importance of Stupidity in Scientific Research," Journal of Cell Science 121, no. 11 (2008).
  

• Turkel, "Navigating Digital History," Digital History Hacks (3 Oct 2008).
  

• Wesch, "Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us," YouTube (31 Jan 2007).

• Shuler, "How Does the Internet Work?" (2005).

Begin to create an online professional presence. Go to Blogger and create an account and a new blog. If possible, create the blog under your own name (e.g., http://janedoe.blogspot.com); if not, choose something professional sounding. Post an introductory message about yourself and edit your user profile. Then go to Twitter and create an account. Again, use your own name if possible and spend a few minutes writing a professional profile. In this course you will be using your blog and Twitter feed as a way of building an online reputation as a public historian. Send me the URL for your blog and your Twitter account and I will add them to the course blogroll, so that your fellow students can follow your online writing, too.