Adoption Of New Media By Historians
Zotero’s Google word cloud— id: 279 title: ‘Adoption of “New” Media by Historians’ date: 2010-10-28T21:49:52-04:00 layout: post guid: http://quintessenceofham.org/?p=279 permalink: /2010/10/28/adoption-of-new-media-by-historians/ topsy_short_url: http://is.gd/goyRA dsq_thread_id: “6300066554” categories: nerd tags: profession research salume Stockholm Syndrome technophobia Rob Townsend recently published some fascinating analysis of historians’ usage of digital content and tools. I think the overall takeaway message has to be unequivocally grim: historians are not, by any stretch of the imagination, actively engaging with new materials and methods. Before I dig into the study, let me say that any criticism which emerges is in no way directed at Townsend, who teases out a remarkable amount of valuable data from a group that comes across as not only reluctant to adopt technology but...