An Intro the Digital Humanities

February 7, 2012MDST 3559

Colbert vs. Wikipedia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJf2UGXBfU8

Wikipedia and You

Have you ever used Wikipedia on an academic assignment?

How often do you use Wikipedia for general reference?

Academic reference?

Have you played the Wikipedia game before?

Have you ever had a professor explicitly forbid Wikipedia?

Let’s Take a Look At…

Up for Discussion

Do historians have an obligation to make Wikipedia better?

What should we do with the issue of allocating credit?

Is the traditional academic approach to history better than

Wikipedia’s more popular interest oriented approach?

What do you think about the potential for open source

materials in academic research? (i.e. textbooks, databases,

etc.)

What do you think about “democratic self education”; is it a

good or bad thing for society?