Each teaching module addresses a different kind of datatype and perspective on digital source criticism
photos / letters / emails
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.
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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.
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Lesson about the fundamentals of the web and web archiving for historians.
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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.
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UPCOMING LESSON - A lesson about how the dynamics of the World Wide Web have led to the prioritisation of the aesthetic value of a mediaeval manuscript - at the expense of its original, unillustrated, less attractive version.
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