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The course blog for History in the Digital Age a course at American University. One of the explicit goals of this course is for us to develop as communicators on the public web. So please do join our conversation, but please do so respectfully. We are all learning how to do this together.Categories
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- Show & Tell: PBS’ The Video Game Revolution
- Shaping the Nation: Open Source
- Project Reflection: Culture at Home
- Bridget Sullivan Final Digital Project
- Menokin Adventurer: Final Thoughts
- Reflection on History as Told by the Internet Project
- Remembering Rebecca: A New Way to Engage with Historic Houses
- Final Project Reflections
- Final Digital Project – Historypin & the Silver Spring Historical Society
- Digital Project Reflection “Music & YouTube”
- Final Reflection
- Final Project and Reflection
- From the Telegraph to the Internet: Project Reflection
- Final reflections
- Show and Tell: Hans Rosling’s Amazing Grraphs
- Project Reflections
- Bay of Pigs Project Summary
- Bridget Sullivan Final Reflection: Abolition Adventure!
- Reflections on “Maroons of North America Viewshare”
- Shaping the Nation: Project Launch
- S&T Visualizing History: Some Examples and Some Thoughts
- Final Reflection
- Final Reflection
- Final Thoughts…
- Final Reflection Post
- Show & Tell – Google Cultural Institute
- Project Draft: History as Told by the Internet
- Show and Tell: Games on the History Channel
- Show and Tell: Gaming the Past
- Show and Tell: Citizen Archivist Dashboard
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Category Archives: Database and New Media
Google Ngram
Google Books has currently digitized 15 million books (and counting), or 12 percent of all books that have been published in history. While impossible to read this vast amount of literature, the tool Google Ngram allows any user with the … Continue reading
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The “True” Corpus of American English
In an analysis of the Corpus of Historical American English (COHA) and Google Books, Professor Mark Davies of Brigham Young University studies the effectiveness of both engines and their ability to properly read the English language. Both are corpuses of … Continue reading
Posted in Database and New Media, Text Analysis
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Millions of Digitized Books, Hundreds of Fascinating Conclusions
Jean-Baptiste Michel et al.’s short and sweet article Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books raises a number of bold points that show just how valuable Google’s bold (and originally considered foolhardy) Google Books project has been to … Continue reading
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Database as a Genre of New Media
Lev Manovich is an accomplished thinker in the field of new media. In his short piece, “Database as a Genre of New Media,” he makes the case that databases represent a fundamental paradigm shift in the way that people think … Continue reading
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TIME Magazine Corpus Practical Practicum
Mike Davies’ TIME Magazine Corpus of American English is a search tool of the online archives of TIME Magazine from the 1920’s through the 2000’s. The tool is free and can be found here. Once you have played around on … Continue reading
The Google Custom Engine: Refining Searching in a Few Steps
Sometimes it is a frustrating experience to search for a topic through the internet, only to have the search engine turn up results that are not related to what you are looking for. This problem is similar to what the … Continue reading
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Tagged Google, Search Engines
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