OPENING THE BLACK BOX OF INTERPRETATION: DIGITAL HISTORY PRACTICES AS MODELS OF KNOWLEDGE.
Digital history is more than just the implementation of algorithmic and other data practices in the practice of history writing. It places our discipline under a microscope and enables us to focus in on what history writing is in the first place: writing about the past under specific social and soci...
| Publicado en: | History & Theory Vol. 61; no. 4; pp. 77 - 86 |
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Dec2022
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