Technology And The Historian
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Technology and the Historian
Author | : Adam Crymble |
Publsiher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2021-04-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780252052606 |
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Charting the evolution of practicing digital history Historians have seen their field transformed by the digital age. Research agendas, teaching and learning, scholarly communication, the nature of the archive—all have undergone a sea change that in and of itself constitutes a fascinating digital history. Yet technology's role in the field's development remains a glaring blind spot among digital scholars. Adam Crymble mines private and web archives, social media, and oral histories to show how technology and historians have come together. Using case studies, Crymble merges histories and philosophies of the field, separating issues relevant to historians from activities in the broader digital humanities movement. Key themes include the origin myths of digital historical research; a history of mass digitization of sources; how technology influenced changes in the curriculum; a portrait of the self-learning system that trains historians and the problems with that system; how blogs became a part of outreach and academic writing; and a roadmap for the continuing study of history in the digital era.
A Short History of Technology from the Earliest Times to A D 1900
Author | : Thomas Kingston Derry,Trevor Illtyd Williams |
Publsiher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 817 |
Release | : 1960-01-01 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9780486274720 |
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Highly readable, profusely illustrated survey relates technology to history of every age: food production, metalworking, mining, steam power, transportation, electricity, and much more. 354 black-and-white illustrations. 1961 edition.
Pastplay
Author | : Kevin Kee,Kevin Bradley Kee |
Publsiher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 347 |
Release | : 2014-03-10 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780472035953 |
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A collection of scholars and teachers of history unpack how computing technologies are transforming the ways that we learn, communicate, and teach.
Technology
Author | : Eric Schatzberg |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2018-11-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780226583976 |
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In modern life, technology is everywhere. Yet as a concept, technology is a mess. In popular discourse, technology is little more than the latest digital innovations. Scholars do little better, offering up competing definitions that include everything from steelmaking to singing. In Technology: Critical History of a Concept, Eric Schatzberg explains why technology is so difficult to define by examining its three thousand year history, one shaped by persistent tensions between scholars and technical practitioners. Since the time of the ancient Greeks, scholars have tended to hold technicians in low esteem, defining technical practices as mere means toward ends defined by others. Technicians, in contrast, have repeatedly pushed back against this characterization, insisting on the dignity, creativity, and cultural worth of their work. The tension between scholars and technicians continued from Aristotle through Francis Bacon and into the nineteenth century. It was only in the twentieth century that modern meanings of technology arose: technology as the industrial arts, technology as applied science, and technology as technique. Schatzberg traces these three meanings to the present day, when discourse about technology has become pervasive, but confusion among the three principal meanings of technology remains common. He shows that only through a humanistic concept of technology can we understand the complex human choices embedded in our modern world.
Technology and Society
Author | : Andrew Ede |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2019-11-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781108425605 |
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Celebrates the creativity of humanity by examining the history of technology as a strategy to solve real-world problems.
Science and Technology in World History
Author | : James Edward McClellan,Harold Dorn |
Publsiher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0801883598 |
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Technology A World History
Author | : Daniel R. Headrick Professor of Social Sciences and History Roosevelt University |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 197 |
Release | : 2009-02-25 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9780199713660 |
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Today technology has created a world of dazzling progress, growing disparities of wealth and poverty, and looming threats to the environment. Technology: A World History offers an illuminating backdrop to our present moment--a brilliant history of invention around the globe. Historian Daniel R. Headrick ranges from the Stone Age and the beginnings of agriculture to the Industrial Revolution and the electronic revolution of the recent past. In tracing the growing power of humans over nature through increasingly powerful innovations, he compares the evolution of technology in different parts of the world, providing a much broader account than is found in other histories of technology. We also discover how small changes sometimes have dramatic results--how, for instance, the stirrup revolutionized war and gave the Mongols a deadly advantage over the Chinese. And how the nailed horseshoe was a pivotal breakthrough for western farmers. Enlivened with many illustrations, Technology offers a fascinating look at the spread of inventions around the world, both as boons for humanity and as weapons of destruction.
Life in Code
Author | : Ellen Ullman |
Publsiher | : MCD |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2017-08-08 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780374711412 |
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The never-more-necessary return of one of our most vital and eloquent voices on technology and culture, the author of the seminal Close to the Machine The last twenty years have brought us the rise of the internet, the development of artificial intelligence, the ubiquity of once unimaginably powerful computers, and the thorough transformation of our economy and society. Through it all, Ellen Ullman lived and worked inside that rising culture of technology, and in Life in Code she tells the continuing story of the changes it wrought with a unique, expert perspective. When Ellen Ullman moved to San Francisco in the early 1970s and went on to become a computer programmer, she was joining a small, idealistic, and almost exclusively male cadre that aspired to genuinely change the world. In 1997 Ullman wrote Close to the Machine, the now classic and still definitive account of life as a coder at the birth of what would be a sweeping technological, cultural, and financial revolution. Twenty years later, the story Ullman recounts is neither one of unbridled triumph nor a nostalgic denial of progress. It is necessarily the story of digital technology’s loss of innocence as it entered the cultural mainstream, and it is a personal reckoning with all that has changed, and so much that hasn’t. Life in Code is an essential text toward our understanding of the last twenty years—and the next twenty.