I think since elementary school, teachers have been\nteaching us how to use Google and databases to narrow down sources for big\nessays, which is something that older generations did not have access to. It helps\nfilter down information that may have taken hours to look for in a physical library\nbefore text searching existed. The secondary sources that are found during text\nsearching help find primary resources that are necessary for some research\nprojects or questions to support the argument. I think that in a less academic\nway as well, using search engines has become such a daily activity to answer\nquick questions or look for information in everyday life that it has made\nknowledge accessible to almost everyone with internet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Digital projects can help make the way someone or an\naudience comprehends the topic it is trying to target. Referring back to last\nweek\u2019s project, \u201cThe Knotted Line\u201d used an interactive timeline to engage the\nuser in the history of prison reform and strides of freedom in the U.S., in addition\nto allowing the user to add their own personal experiences to comment section\nof the timeline. To me at least, as confusing as it was, it made me want to\nlook for the next box on information and made me want to keep reading and I\nfeel like that should be a goal for someone creating digital history project.\nIt keeps the reader engaged and wanting to get informed on whatever topic it is\nreferring to. In reference to social change, the more people find interest in\nthe topic, the more it is talked about and something gets done about it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In terms of something being gained, whatever topic of history\nis being talked gets a more modernized sense of being, therefore making it more\nrelatable and understandable for the user to absorb the knowledge. It also\nreaches a larger audience than keeping it in a set location, which can also tie\nback to the first paragraph that talks about how it can help us engage with\ninformation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
References:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Guidone, Tony. 9 Sept.\n2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Milligan,\nIan. \u201cIllusionary Order: Online Databases, Optical Character Recognition, and\nCanadian History, 1997\u20132010 .\u201d Project Muse<\/em>, Dec. 2013,\nhttps:\/\/muse-jhu-edu.mutex.gmu.edu\/article\/527016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I think since elementary school, teachers have been teaching us how to use Google and databases to narrow down sources for big essays, which is something that older generations did not have access to. It helps filter down information that may have taken hours to look for in a physical library before text searching existed. … Continue reading “Text Searching and Digital Media”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-searching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":426,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions\/426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}