Nurturing New “Imagined Communities”: Grass-root Media Platforms and the Formation of Alternative Historical Narratives in Marginal Groups

Dijia Chen, University of Virginia

PROPOSAL TYPE

Traditional panel

SEEKING
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
  • Digital
  • Public Engagement
  • Theory

This panel investigates how alternative newspapers, magazines, exhibitions, online forums, etc. function as contact zones for marginal groups to connect, communicate, interact, and eventually develop into virtual or even real communities with their own narratives and voices against the dominating discourse. Read More

Digital Public History Lab

megan smeznik, college of wooster and ncph digital media group

Proposal Type

Workshop

Seeking

  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Data/Information Management
  • Digital
  • Teaching and Training
Abstract

The NCPH Digital Media Group is organizing the second annual Digital Public History Lab – a workshop that provides opportunities for collaborative learning and professional networking around digital resources, skills, and strategies for public historians and professionals working in adjacent fields (e.g. Read More

Documentary Editing as Public History

KATIE HATTON, PAPERS OF MARTIN VAN BUREN, CUMBERLAND UNIVERSITY

Proposal Type

Traditional Panel

Seeking

  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Archives
  • Digital
  • Documentary Editing
Abstract

This panel examines the benefits and shortcomings of using documentary editing as a tool for public history. Read More

Putting Stories “Back on the Map”: Digital Mapping at the National Park Service

megan woods, national parks of boston

Proposal Type

Traditional Panel

Seeking

  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Digital
  • Government Historians
  • Place
Abstract

Rooted in place-based learning and engagement, the National Park Service seeks to foster visitors’ connection to their site, whether a historic structure or a natural resource. Read More

Public Historians on Twitter

LINDSEY WIECK, ST. MARY’S UNIVERSITY

Proposal Type

Roundtable

Seeking

  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Digital
  • Public Engagement
  • Social Media
Abstract

This panel seeks to highlight and discuss some of the different ways that public historians are using Twitter and other social media to facilitate interdisciplinary discussions related to public history. Read More

Digital Public History Lab

ABBY CURTIN TEARE, NCPH DIGITAL MEDIA GROUP

Proposal Type

Workshop

Seeking

  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Data/Information Management
  • Digital
  • Teaching and Training
Abstract

The NCPH Digital Media Group is organizing the second annual Digital Public History Lab – a workshop that provides opportunities for collaborative learning and professional networking around digital resources, skills, and strategies for public historians and professionals working in adjacent fields (e.g. Read More

Mobile Technology and 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. Read More

Filmmaking and LGBTQ History

MEGAN CRUTCHER, DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY

Proposal Type

Workshop

Seeking

  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Digital
  • Oral History
  • Social Justice
  • Film
Abstract

In general, filmmaking is an accessible, far-reaching, and interesting way to present history, especially LGBTQ history, for the public. Read More

Implications of Monuments in Southern Communities

Alissa kane, middle tennessee state university

Proposal Type

Roundtable

Seeking

  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Digital
  • Memory
  • Place
Abstract

This presentation will focus on southern commemorative landscapes and the implications of building dominant symbols of collective memory on the physical landscape of communities. Read More

Podcasting as Public History

eLIZABETH KEOHANE-BURBRIDGE, FOOTNOTING HISTORY

Proposal Type

Roundtable

Seeking

  • Seeking Additional Presenters
Related Topics
  • Digital
  • Public Engagement
  • Reflections on the Field
Abstract

Over the past decade, hundreds of millions of listeners downloaded podcast episodes about history. Podcasters interact with their listeners through blog post comments and social media exchanges. Read More