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Experimenting with the use of interactive digital storytelling in academia
Learn moreOn 19 and 20 March, the C²DH hosted a two-day hands-on workshop on the use of interactive digital storytelling for academic historians with Sandra Gaudenzi, one of the leading experts in interactive storytelling and a senior lecturer at the University of Westminster.
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Lecture Patrik Svensson – Unframing Infrastructure: recording and interview
Learn moreLecture by Patrik Svensson, Professor of Humanities and Information Technology at Umeå University, and exclusive interview for the C²DH’s ‘New Horizons’ lecture series.
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Digital Hermeneutics in History: Theory and Practice
Learn moreOn 25-26 October 2018, the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) organised the two day conference and workshop Digital Hermeneutics in History: Theory and Practice, on occasion of the official launch of the Ranke.2 teaching platform for Digital Source Criticism.
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Integrating the digital into the academic curriculum of history – How to engage your audience
Learn moreAfter launching the Ranke.2 teaching platform on digital source criticism in autumn 2018, I assumed that its appearance and form – short colourful animations and easy-to-digest chunks of information – would soon catch the attention of lecturers and encourage them to use it in their courses. But a recent meeting with colleagues made me realise…
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Workshop on Histories of Maintenance, Repair, Reuse and Disposal
Learn moreThis report summarises a C²DH-hosted workshop concerning some undervalued and overlooked aspects of technology.
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Experimental Media Archaeology featuring the Apple IIe
Learn moreDuring a research visit to the Media Archaeology Lab in Boulder (CO) participants experimented with the Apple IIe. They either played an educational game or wrote a letter on a computer from the 1980s.
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Using Digital Tools to Generate Subtitles for a Radio Play
Learn moreThis entry briefly describes how we generated English subtitles (using digital tools) for the binaural radio play "Glanz und Elend der Kunstkopf-Stereophonie" we produced in 2017.
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On creating a research poster for an academic conference
Learn moreHistorians like to write, and they write a lot. Throughout my studies in history, I was taught how to analyse sources and how to write a scientific work. But I have never been taught how to present my research in a poster format – which requires a minimum amount of creativity.
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Oral History under scrutiny in München
Learn moreIn Munich, from 19 to 21 September 2018, a group of speech technologists, social scientists, linguists, computer scientists, oral historians and information scientists convened to explore the integration of digital tools in the workflow of scholars who work with interviews.