Audience analysis and the role of the digital in community engagement
22 March 2016 – Kerri Young
public engagement, community history, digital history, The Public Historian, TPH 38.1, digital divide, audience assessment, "Chasing the Frontiers of Digital Technology" responses
As a public historian working on the collaborative digital platform Historypin, I second Andrew Hurley’s assertion, in his article “Chasing the Frontiers of Digital Technology: Public History Meets the Digital Divide,” that introducing more traditional methods of engagement can, and most often is required to, enhance the efficacy of the digital tools within a public history project. Read More