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recent bookmarks from robertogrecoThe History of American Childhood / Backlist2015-12-30T20:11:12+00:00
http://backlist.cc/lists/history-of-american-childhood
robertogrecobooks booklists rebeccaonion history childhood children stevenmintz annhulbert vivianazelizer carolynsteedman karensánchez-eppler kennethkidd nicholas sammond martagutman ningdeconinck-smith leeedelman robinbernstein race gender queer queerness feral boys us culture societyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:669d693e3095/We need to ditch generational labels – Rebecca Onion – Aeon2015-05-19T22:21:02+00:00
http://aeon.co/magazine/psychology/we-need-to-ditch-generational-labels/
robertogrecorebeccaonion generations age ageism complexity humans society adaptability independence history individuals neilhowe williamstrauss stereotypes lifecourse palmermuntz sivavaidhyanathan agesegregation millenials genx generationx generationy erichoover karlmannheimaugusteconte gottfriedleibniz normanryder sociology causality robertwohl pierrenora bigotry generationalwarfare malcolmharris digitalnatives hypocrisy via:ayjay generationalthinking geny millennialshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5ccea5e00414/@HistoryInPics, @HistoricalPics, @History_Pics: Why the wildly popular Twitter accounts are bad for history.2014-02-06T19:12:47+00:00
http://www.slate.com/articles/life/history/2014/02/_historyinpics_historicalpics_history_pics_why_the_wildly_popular_twitter.single.html
robertogrecoEvery image is also an artifact—it has a creator, a context, and, in the era of film photography at least, a physical original that sits in a repository somewhere. Divorced from all that metadata, a stream of historical images is always going to be a shallow experience.
By not linking to sources or context, history pic accounts create an impression of history as a glossy, impervious façade."
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"When she posted her rant on the history-pics phenomenon, the Folger’s Sarah Werner received pushback on Twitter, and was accused of being “against fun.” But a critique of this mode of history-on-Twitter is actually the opposite of elitist schoolmarmery. By posting the same types of photographs over and over and omitting context and links, these accounts are robbing readers of the joy of the historical rabbit hole—and they’re taking a dim, condescending view of the public’s appetite for complexity and breadth of interest.
In my capacity as blogger for the Vault, I spend a lot of time in (free!) digital archives, on the blogs of libraries and museums, and on sites produced by historians working inside and outside of the academy. A delirious pleasure of historical inquiry, on- and offline, lies in the twists and turns: You think you’re writing about children’s encyclopedias from the 1920s, and at the end of the day you’re researching the primatologist Robert Yerkes. This joy is easier than ever for anyone to experience, given the ever-growing body of linked information and original documents available on the Web.
I’m under no illusion that every blog reader follows the links I include to the archives where I find documents, or that every Twitter follower clicks on the links I put in @SlateVault tweets. But if they do, and they land in a digital archive or on a blog, they might see a slider pointing to related documents, a right rail with links to intriguing past posts, or an appealing subject heading. Or, they might decide to plug some of the information they find into Google Books, and see whether anything fun surfaces.
My hope is that I’m providing a starting point, not an end point, with each post. I never know for sure if what sparks my own curiosity will kindle a similar fire with readers, but if it does, I want readers to be able to pursue the subject beyond the confines of my short posts and tweets. The history-pics accounts give no impression of even knowing this web of legitimate, varied historical content exists. Given their huge follower counts, this is a missed opportunity—for their readers, and for the historians and archivists who would thrill to larger audiences for their work."]]>history curiosity rebeccaonion sarahwerner @HistoryInPics @HistoricalPics @History_Pics johnoverholt questioning askingquestions attribution context mattnovak truth twitter alexismadrigal discovery learning complexity artifacts bestpractices tumblr research howweshare internet web online 2014 questionaskinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e90af88753ee/