Heritage is the use of the past in the present. But what happens with the past if our present is digital?
Andrea Kocsis has gathered some like-minded students and scholars interested in heritage and digital humanities to use this space to search for possible answers through critical lenses. Have a look around!
Here are some things we were up to recently. Just swipe for more. It's like Tinder.
It's like the start of a lousy whodunnit: 50 tense people from different backgrounds who do not necessarily want to be there but must be locked together. This is how the mandatory Research Communications class I randomly found myself leading and building from scratch started. How did I do?
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I’m the new National Librarian’s Research Fellow in Digital Scholarship for 2024-25 at the National Library of Scotland. During the following year, I will work towards proving that web archives are far from boring. What the heck is a web archive?
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I continue this blog from Edinburgh, where I've been appointed as a Chancellor's Fellow in Humanities Informatics. Wanna know what I'm going to do up North?
Continue readingHere is a taster of articles to give you a good idea of what this blog is about. Dive in for more by hitting the read all button!
I’m the new National Librarian’s Research Fellow in Digital Scholarship for 2024-25 at the National Library of Scotland. During the following year, I will work towards proving that web archives are far from boring. What the heck is a web archive?
Continue reading
It's like the start of a lousy whodunnit: 50 tense people from different backgrounds who do not necessarily want to be there but must be locked together. This is how the mandatory Research Communications class I randomly found myself leading and building from scratch started. How did I do?
Continue reading
Over the past few decades, video games have become one of the most successful and popular forms of entertainment. With over two billion gamers worldwide, scholars have advocated for more research on how representations of past events in video games contribute to our broader cultural understandings. One of the most popular genres is that of war games: where digitally representing a real-life war is the basis of both gameplay and narrative. The Imperial War Museum’s new exhibition, ‘War Games’, provides insight into how they are created and what impact these historical representations of warfare can have on users. I think it is a missed opportunity. Continue reading to learn why.
Continue readingThis blog was born from the History, Heritage, and Memory module of the History course at Northeastern University London, led by Dr Andrea Kocsis, the editor and web dev of this blog. She is a Chancellor's Fellow in Humanities Informatics at the University of Edinburgh . Her students and some other scholars also happen to drop by as authors.