The transformation of historical research in the digital age
Historians make research queries on Google, ProQuest, and the HathiTrust. They garner information from keyword searches, carried out across millions of documents, their research shaped by algorithms they rarely understand. Historians often then visit archives in whirlwind trips marked by thousands o...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York :
Cambridge University Press
2022.
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Series: | Cambridge elements. Elements in historical theory and practice
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009672628306719 |
| Summary: | Historians make research queries on Google, ProQuest, and the HathiTrust. They garner information from keyword searches, carried out across millions of documents, their research shaped by algorithms they rarely understand. Historians often then visit archives in whirlwind trips marked by thousands of digital photographs, subsequently explored on computer monitors from the comfort of their offices. They may then take to social media or other digital platforms, their work shaped through these new forms of pre- and post-publication review. Almost all aspects of the historian's research workflow have been transformed by digital technology. In other words, all historians - not just Digital Historians - are implicated in this shift. The Transformation of Historical Research in the Digital Age equips historians to be self-conscious practitioners by making these shifts explicit and exploring their long-term impact. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core. |
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| Item Description: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 31 Aug 2022). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (77 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| ISBN: | 9781009027472 9781009027663 9781009026055 |
