THE PROPERTIES OF DIGITAL HISTORY.
This article offers a definition of digital history that focuses on the core affordances of the personal computer and the process by which those properties come to be exploited. I begin by outlining the two properties of computers that I argue define digital history: they process data and (as Janet...
| Publicado en: | History & Theory Vol. 61; no. 4; pp. 86 - 107 |
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