In general, the way we look at texts, and history has changed. Yes, you can still go in person to the library and research, however, nowadays everything has been digitalized. I can go online and search up anything from the library of congress. I can search through a specific text by using a program to look for one sentence. The whole historical research process has become easier. This is especially beneficial for students. With tight deadlines, we need to use every second of the time we have. So instead of spending hours reading books looking for the information you need, you can cut that time in half with the web. It, of course, is not as engaged or hands on, but you are still learning the information you need to succeed. Digital projects can also make significant social change. Everyone is online now and would be more likely to come across an article or paper than if they were only printed. Not many people read hard copy newspapers anymore either. Because of this, more article can be included in the online newspapers with links and sources, allowing people to continue their own research. This creates a domino effect almost. One article with a bunch of good sources will bring light to those sources that all address a topic. Then these sources get read and passed on through another article, and so on. With so many articles on one serious topic, the more people that would be informed, the more social changes that are made. Of course, there are some things that are lost with the use of digital media. The hands on feeling of turning pages and feeling the history is lost. You would no longer be able to feel really connected with the history. When reading a text that was written so long ago, and reading it in person gives a different feeling. It is a more hands on feeling with history. However, we do gain a lot from digital media. We gain access to texts from all over the world. We can find translations of texts. We can save time doing research and would then have more time to focus on portraying the information to its fullest. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kelseyfritz. \u201cThe Good and Bad of Digital Media.\u201d Digital History Methods<\/em>, 17 Jan. 2011, www.dighist.org\/2011\/01\/the-good-and-bad-of-digital-media\/.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Milligan, Ian. \u201cIllusionary Order: Online Databases, Optical Character Recognition, and Canadian History, 1997\u20132010.\u201d The Canadian Historical Review, University of Toronto Press, 27 Nov. 2013, muse.jhu.edu\/article\/527016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In general, the way we look at texts, and history has changed. Yes, you can still go in person to the library and research, however, nowadays everything has been digitalized. I can go online and search up anything from the library of congress. I can search through a specific text by using a program … Continue reading “Blog Post #2”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-searching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":460,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions\/460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}