{%youtube _eFrLjYhmwg %} --- ## Guerrilla Digital Public History ### Fall 2019 #### shawngraham.github.io/guerrilla-dh <!-- Put the link to this slide here so people can follow --> follow along at https://hackmd.io/@drgraham/gdph-9-10 <small>[view source code on hackmd.io](https://hackmd.io/HO7RNCp5TwiQ3CqC1p0Epw?both) | remember to mouse-over text for links</small> --- + digital history is ... ? ---  [Ian Milligan: Historians’ archival research looks quite different in the digital age](https://theconversation.com/historians-archival-research-looks-quite-different-in-the-digital-age-121096) Note: This is probably what you were expecting --- <!-- .slide: data-background="https://i.imgur.com/eRUjnog.jpg" ---> Note: But it's also this. --- And it's also this: {%youtube 9gUfyjC-zGE %} [Picturing LeBreton Flats](http://picturinglebretonflats.ca) --- And it can also be this:  [Ottawa's First Chinatown](https://nathpicard.github.io/Old-Chinatown-Ottawa/) --- {%youtube xxChCRGPkgE %} [Ottawa's First Chinatown](https://nathpicard.github.io/Old-Chinatown-Ottawa/) --- {%youtube wAdbynt4gyw %} [Voices Recognition](http://www.heritagejam.org/jam-day-entries/2014/7/12/voices-recognition-stuart-eve-kerrie-hoffman-colleen-morgan-alexis-pantos-and-sam-kinchin-smith) --- What I especially like about these projects is the way they pull knowledge and stories about a place, giving voice out of the digital aether and injecting them into place. That uncanny jarring/juxtaposition unexpected _experience_ can be a vector for [_digital enchantment_](https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/european-journal-of-archaeology/article/enchantment-of-the-archaeological-record/6B71DCDB28D3FABE22660EEA860ED7FE/share/4e3b9c26d6a8ad18c37806bf75430609166eab0e). --- [shawngraham.github.io/historicalfriction](https://shawngraham.github.io/historicalfriction) This might be loud, if it works. It might not. [(Here's a video of what's supposed to happen.)](https://twitter.com/electricarchaeo/status/1158457086868688896) --- DH is > tools. DH is about _inter alia_ : - a macroscopic view - digitization & dealing with the consequences of digitization - storytelling - emotions - enchantment - truth in the face of misinformation --- _Guerrilla_ Digital _Public_ History might be + telling the stories + that need to be told + in the places that need to hear them, + **even if** no one asked you to do it (you might have some reservations now, yes?) Note: so now we have the guerrilla part, the digital part, and the public part. --- ## Truth and Lies for Digital Public Historians --- <!-- .slide: data-transition="fade-in fade-out" -->  --- <!-- .slide: data-transition="fade-in fade-out" -->  --- What did they tell you about 'digital sources', as an undergrad? --- Mike Caulfield, [_Recognition Is Futile: Why Checklist Approaches to Information Literacy Fail and What To Do About It_ hapgood.us 2018](https://hapgood.us/2018/02/18/recognition-is-futile-why-checklist-approaches-to-information-literacy-fail-and-what-to-do-about-it/) Note: "The difference has always been the difference between a narrow list of things to do (SIFT) and a broad list of things to consider and rate (CRAAP)." https://hapgood.us/2019/05/12/sift-and-a-check-please-preview/ ---  <small><small> "When you feel strong emotion — happiness, anger, pride, vindication — and that emotion pushes you to share a 'fact' with others, STOP." His reasoning: Anything that appeals directly to the "lizard brain" is designed to short-circuit our critical thinking. And these kinds of appeals are very often created by active agents of deception. [-NPR](https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/10/31/559571970/learning-to-spot-fake-news-start-with-a-gut-check) </small></small> --- ## SIFTing things  - [Four Moves](hapgood.us/2019/06/19/sift-the-four-moves/) Note: When the lizard brain reacts, "stop reading, stop reacting, figure out what you need to know and reapproach" --- ## Quick Activity [Let's trace a viral photo to its source](https://webliteracy.pressbooks.com/chapter/activity-trace-viral-photos-upstream/) --- You will all probably TA at some point. You should read & use [Mike Caulfield's _Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers... and other people who care about facts_](https://webliteracy.pressbooks.com/) with your students early on. --- ### oh, about the web...  - the structure of the web _matters_ Note: - an essay uses literary structures and logical syllogisms to make arguments. An essay assumes a sequence of top-to-bottom, start-to-finish reading, from which sense emerges. - on the web, the sequence in which people will encounter information and arguments cannot be assumed _but people still make sense given the order in which they read things_. The story that emerges from reading page A then page B **is not** the same story that emerges from reading page B _then_ page A. Links are conduits of attention. Who controls links, controls the web. - 'Linked Data' tries to add semantic information on top of those conduits of attention, so that direction of linkage also can mean 'is the daughter of' or 'is a result of' and so on. The pattern of the resulting _graph_ can be queried to answer questions that the 'page' or 'resource' itself does not necessarily address. - You don't need to worry about this for now, but suffice to say: in digital history, the stories we tell are in dialog with the machine. - the machine is not neutral. the machine has owners. the machine does its own thing. the machine has more power than you. - welcome to guerrilla digital public history --- ### The Minimum Digital Basics for ### New MA Students ? minimal basic digital ? basic minimal digital ? digital basic minimum ... you know what I'm getting at... --- ### Digital Identity 1. You need to have a scholarly identity online + but let's talk [privacy & safety](https://hackblossom.org/cybersecurity/) + now... go to [the 'academic' theme for hugo](https://app.netlify.com/sites/upbeat-nobel-727f34/overview) --- _You do not have to have a social media account. Social media can be useful for monitoring the field, engagement. But there's a lot of toxicity and danger. We'll talk about social media practice later._ <small> See eg. Sara Perry, Nicole Beale. The Social Web and Archaeology’s Restructuring: Impact, Exploitation, Disciplinary Change. Open Archaeology, 2015; 1 (1) DOI: 10.1515/opar-2015-0009 [link](https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/opar.2014.1.issue-1/opar-2015-0009/opar-2015-0009.xml) </small> --- ### Digital Notetaking 2. [Keep track of what you read with Zotero.org](http://zotero.org) 3. [Take Smart Notes](https://takesmartnotes.com/#moreinfo) 4. [Zettlekasten with Sublime Text](https://github.com/renerocksai/sublime_zk) 5. [Hypothesis for online notes is handy too](https://web.hypothes.is) --- ### Digital Writing 6. [Write chunks of thought with Scrivener](https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener/overview) 7. [Or write plain-text with Sublime Text](https://www.sublimetext.com/) Separate your _content_ from its _containers_. Practice [Sustainable Scholarship](https://programminghistorian.org/en/lessons/sustainable-authorship-in-plain-text-using-pandoc-and-markdown). --- ### Archival Photo Management 8. [Tropy](https://tropy.org/) --- <!-- .slide: data-background="https://i.giphy.com/lD76yTC5zxZPG.gif" --> <br><br> ...for now... --- <!-- .slide: data-background="https://st2.depositphotos.com/1302980/11260/v/950/depositphotos_112608788-stock-illustration-wanted-poster-on-vintage-background.jpg" --> + [Bonetrade project](https://bonetrade.github.io): 2 RAs wanted + [Nanohistory project](https://www.nanohistory.org/): 1 RA wanted + [CCAD/CRANE project](https://shawngraham.github.io/CCAD): 1 RA wanted