Towards a New Digital Historicism?
This article argues that the contemporary hype in digitization and dissemination of our cultural heritage – especially of audiovisual sources – is comparable to the boom of critical source editions in the late 19th century. But...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
2012-02-01
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| Series: | VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture |
| Online Access: | https://www.viewjournal.eu/article/10.18146/2213-0969.2012.jethc004/ |
| Summary: | This article argues that the contemporary hype in digitization and
dissemination of our cultural heritage – especially of audiovisual sources –
is comparable to the boom of critical source editions in the late 19th
century. But while the dramatic rise of accessibility to and availability of
sources in the 19th century went hand in hand with the development of new
scholarly skills of source interpretation and was paralleled by the
institutionalization of history as an academic profession, a similar trend
of an emerging digital historicism today seems absent. This essay aims at
reflecting on the challenges and chances that the discipline of history –
and the field of television history in particular – is actually facing. It
offers some thoughts and ideas on how the digitization of sources and their
online availability affects the established practices of source
criticism. |
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| ISSN: | 2213-0969 |