{"id":97,"date":"2017-10-18T18:28:19","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T22:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/hist190\/?p=97"},"modified":"2017-10-18T18:30:37","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T22:30:37","slug":"the-republic-of-letters-the-internet-before-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/hist190\/2017\/10\/18\/the-republic-of-letters-the-internet-before-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"The Republic of Letters (The Internet Before the Internet)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Class began with a discussion about, <em>Reinventing Knowledge: Chapter 4 &#8220;The Republic of letters&#8221;.<\/em> As everyone gathered around in a circle, the look of stress and pure panic filled the room. After reading 40 dense pages of historical research, we all felt beaten down and a little lost. After analyzing questions like: Who was the attended <em>audience? What was the authors&#8217; diction and narrative style?\u00a0 <\/em>We were able to get a better understanding of the chapter&#8217;s overall meaning. Although my fellow <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-100 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/hist190\/files\/2017\/10\/97803933377162-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/hist190\/files\/2017\/10\/97803933377162-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/hist190\/files\/2017\/10\/97803933377162.jpg 266w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>classmates and I were \u00a0getting a greater concept of the passage, we\u00a0still had our reservations about the authors.\u00a0\u00a0The classroom was outraged by the two&#8217;s unrealistically high expectations of our historical knowledge and education. I mean really! Who the heck is Ren\u00e9 Descartes?\u00a0 If you&#8217;re gonna write a book intended for students, at least give a little background!\u00a0After tensions dyed down, the class broke apart into pairs and explored a Stanford University website, that created a mapping of The Republic Letters. Each couple of students were assigned a case study to analyze. Julia and I observed the movement and evolution of Salons.\u00a0 Dating back to the 17th and early 18th century, Salons were parties of high-class intellects that discussed their research and findings. And if you were wondering, the parties at Scranton do not\u00a0fit this\u00a0definition\u00a0\ud83d\ude09 . \u00a0Next class\u00a0we will further discuss our proposals and\u00a0 \u201cHistorical Research in a Digital Age: Reflections from the Mapping the Republic of Letters Project.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Peace,<\/p>\n<p>Ben<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Class began with a discussion about, Reinventing Knowledge: Chapter 4 &#8220;The Republic of letters&#8221;. As everyone gathered around in a circle, the look of stress and pure panic filled the room. After reading 40 dense pages of historical research, we all felt beaten down and a little lost. After analyzing questions like: Who was the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/hist190\/2017\/10\/18\/the-republic-of-letters-the-internet-before-the-internet\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Republic of Letters (The Internet Before the Internet)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":275,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/hist190\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/hist190\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/hist190\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/hist190\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/275"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/hist190\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/hist190\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/hist190\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions\/106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/hist190\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/hist190\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/hist190\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}