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Digital Humanities – Spring 2018

Digital Humanities – Spring 2018

Digital Public History-Sarah Feinman

1)I learned a great deal of new information at this digital public history exhibit. Overall, this exhibit is about advertising in the 18th century. Additionally, this digital public history exhibit mainly describes and shows visuals, which describe information about many historical events.

2)Carl Robert Key is the creator of this historical exhibit, and is also a knowledgeable professor at Assumption College. Ultimately, he created this exhibit to create easy access to historical newspapers.

3)The primary sources I found consisted of old newspapers. Although some of these sources were difficult to interpret, I am looking forward to analyzing  and gaining insight on many of the historical texts. This public history exhibit is easily accessible, which is definitely helpful, but can be improved.

4)A way that I think this digital public history exhibit can be improved is to include longer descriptions/summaries to under the pictures. This will help me analyze the photo better, and definitely gain more insight of the context.

5)Overall, throughout this exhibit, a gain was the amount of new information that I learned. Additionally, I was very intrigued by the tools, such as the scanners and computers.  These tools were easily accessible, which is definitely  helpful for me, not knowing much about the exhibit. Additionally, the tools at this exhibit will also help me use the information I gain to my best potential. Ultimately, a gain in this exhibit is the easy access provided, and a loss is holding the picture in your actual hand. There can be damage done to the pictures from this, which can cause difficulties to someone using this exhibit.

 

 

March 8, 2018

SUNY Cortland