Each teaching module addresses a different kind of datatype and perspective on digital source criticism
A lesson on Wikipedia as a born-digital source of history and how to apply digital source criticism to it.
editors: Sofia Papastamkou
go to lessonLearn how to easily collect social media data with Netlytic software.
editors: Sofia Papastamkou
go to lessonLesson on how to deal with the abundance of digital born data, with regard to research, reaching out to audiences, teaching, and preservation strategies, using social media as a case study.
photographies / correspondences / interviews / archive documents / press / objects
Lesson on how the method of source criticism has been affected by the digital turn and what this means for the practice of students who study humanities disciplines and conduct research.
A lesson about how the collection of interviews with concentration camp survivors created by psychologist David Boder in 1946 was turned into an interactive website in 2000 and 2009.
Lesson about the fundamentals of the web and web archiving for historians.
A lesson about how digital technology has stirred our imagination and enabled us to create new realities. At the same time we need to be sceptical about the merits of an all-encompassing digital lifestyle.
Lesson about the digitisation and exploration of digital newspapers
editors: Stefania Scagliola
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