DIGITAL HISTORY
- Academic year
- 2018/2019 Syllabus of previous years
- Official course title
- STORIA DIGITALE SP.
- Course code
- FM0464 (AF:295193 AR:162238)
- Modality
- On campus classes
- ECTS credits
- 6
- Degree level
- Master's Degree Programme (DM270)
- Educational sector code
- M-STO/04
- Period
- 1st Semester
- Where
- VENEZIA
- Moodle
- Go to Moodle page
Contribution of the course to the overall degree programme goals
The aim of the course is to provide a broad understanding of arguments and debates about Digital History in Europe and outside Europe in order to compare theoretical approaches, tools and digital methods.
Expected learning outcomes
- to know the specific terminology of the discipline and understand the context in which it is used
- to know the arguments and debates about Digital History in Europe and outside Europe
2) Ability to apply knowledge and understanding
- to use in an appropriate manner the terminology related to the discipline
- to know how digital methods have been applied to an historical question in Europe and outside Europe
3) Judgment skills
- to know how the rise of digital technologies has changed the ways historians practice their craft
4) Communication skills
- to describe in an appropriate manner and critically the topics related to the discipline
5) Learning skills
- to critically use the bibliography and referral texts
Pre-requirements
Contents
The first segment will look at the changing practice of doing history in the digital age and new ways for historians to share the results of their research with peers and with non-professionals.
- Digital Public History
- Wikipedia, blog, and social networks
- Open access journals
The second part will explore the changing nature of historical sources in the digital age. We will examine how software tools are used by digital historians.
- Text Mining
- Network Analysis
- Historical GIS
In the third part, students will be working in small groups on their own Digital History projects. They will transform an existing historical narrative into a Digital Historytelling.
Referral texts
- Teresa Numerico, Domenico Fiormonte, Francesca Tomasi, L’umanista digitale, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2010
or
- Gabriele Balbi, Paolo Magaudda, Storia dei media digitali, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2014
or
- Rolando Minuti (a cura di), Il web e gli studi storici: guida critica all'uso della rete, Roma, Carocci, 2015
Secondary readings
- Fabio Ciotti, Gino Roncaglia, Il mondo digitale: introduzione ai nuovi media, Roma, Laterza, 2000
- Serge Noiret, Philippe Rygiel, Les historiens, leurs revues et Internet (France, Espagne, Italie), Paris, Publibook, 2005
- Toni Weller (eds.), History in the digital age, London-New York, Routledge, 2012
- Pierre Mounier (dir.), Read/write book 2 : une introduction aux humanités numériques, Marseille, OpenEdition Press, 2012
- Jack Dougherty, Kristen Nawrotzki (eds.), Writing history in the digital age, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 2013
- T. Mills Kelly, Teaching history in the digital age, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 2013
- Frédéric Clavert, Serge Noiret (dir.), L’histoire contemporaine à l'ère numérique, Bruxelles, Peter Lang, 2013
- “Public History. Pratiche nazionali e identità globale”, in Memoria e Ricerca, 37, 2011
- Jennifer Rutner Roger C. Schonfeld, “Supporting the Changing Research Practices of Historians: Final Report from ITHAKA S+R”, December 10, 2012 [http://www.sr.ithaka.org/wp-content/mig/reports/supporting-the-changing-research-practices-of-historians.pdf ]
- Franziska Heimburger, Émilien Ruiz, Has the Historian’s craft gone digital? Some observations from France, in Diacronie. Studi di storia contemporanea, 10/2, 2012 [http://www.studistorici.com/2012/06/29/heimburger-ruiz_numero_10/ ]
- Tavola rotonda. Wikipedia e le scienze storiche, in Diacronie. Studi di storia contemporanea, 29/1, 2017 [http://www.studistorici.com/2017/03/29/sommario-numero-29/#sec2 ]
- Benedetta Giuliani, Dalla public history alla applied history. Ruolo pubblico e funzione politica della storia nel recente dibattito storiografico angloamericano, in Diacronie. Studi di storia contemporanea, 32/4, 2017 [http://www.studistorici.com/2017/12/29/giuliani_numero_32/ ]