National Council on Public History

DANIEL MILOWSKI, ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY

Proposal Type

Traditional Panel

Seeking

• Seeking Additional Presenters
• Seeking General Feedback and Interest

Related Topics

• Data/Information Management
• Digital
• Museums/Exhibits

Abstract

Public history projects born-digital or including a digital component often use a web site. Traditional methods for developing websites often assume user access through a larger screen device such as a desktop, laptop, or tablet. However, increasingly digital traffic involves mobile tech with some users only access being via a smart phone. This has significant implications for digital public history projects. This panel seeks to showcase and critically discuss innovative digital public history projects that have embraced mobile technology by deploying mobile-enabled projects with a particular emphasis on mobile-only projects where primary access is through an app or other dedicated mobile method (SMS text guided tour, annotated map, etc.)

Description

Public history projects born-digital or including a digital component often use a web site. Traditional methods for developing websites often assume user access through a larger screen device such as a desktop, laptop, or tablet. However, increasingly digital traffic involves mobile technology with some users only access being via a smart phone. This has significant implications for digital public history projects.

This panel seeks to explore how mobile technology can be used to effectively engage with the public through public history. Goals for the panel include showcasing innovative digital public history projects that have embraced mobile technology, discussing the challenges involved in developing and distributing these projects, discussing the public’s use and feedback on these projects, and discussing larger methodological, historical, and theoretical concerns presented by these projects or mobile technology in general.

The panel seeks panelists who have deployed mobile-enabled projects willing to present on their projects in the context of the panel goals. Panelists with experience with mobile-only projects where primary access is through an app or other dedicated mobile method (SMS text guided tour, annotated map, etc.) are of particular interest.

The panel also seeks scholar panelists whose work involves analyzing and critiquing projects like this willing to present analysis of projects that fit this model and their implications for historical methodology, analysis or other theoretical aspects.

This does not imply an either/or conception of panelists. Panelists with experience in both areas are encouraged to participate and address their own projects and the methodological, historical, and theoretical aspects.

Panelists will be encouraged to share their projects with each other well in advance of the conference to encourage critical engagement with each other’s work prior to the panel presentation.

If you have a direct offer of assistance, sensitive criticism, or wish to pass along someone’s contact information confidentially, please get in contact directly: Daniel Milowski, [email protected]

All feedback and offers of assistance should be submitted by July 1, 2019. If you have general ideas or feedback to share, please feel free to use the comments feature below.

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