Class September 25th

To begin our digital history class on September 25th, we talked about tweets by the media team.  Our media team consisted of four digital history students. The Great 78 Project is a digital community project for the preservation, research and discovery of 78 rpm records from the time period of about 1898 to the 1950s.  We then discussed how The Great 78 Project is giving history digital life (Chestnut Hill). We talked about a reading by Lara Putnam called “The Transnational and the Text-Searchable: Digitized Sources and the Shadows They Cast.” We further reviewed the pertinent key terms that seemed important. Some of these key terms we deemed to be important included: digitized turn, contextualization, and transnational. In addition, we researched and determined that Lara Putnam is a Latin American specialist, as well as a distinctive transnational historian. Several key reading strategies we utilized was listing key terms and scanning for main concepts. Furthermore, we examined and further explored information on transnational history and how the expansion of the internet affects history. This article “The Transnational and the Text-Searchable: Digitized Sources and the Shadows They Cast” by Laura Putnam consists of learning about digitizing terms and it’s processes. Then the article delved a little deeper analyzing and tackling the effects of the digitized turn.