Thursday, March 29 at 12:00PM – 2:00PM
Location: Koerner Library, Room 153
This presentation by Dr. Heidi Tworek highlights the History Lab from the seminar HIST 490, a highly collaborative, student-driven course that enables the class to develop and implement a digital project on the history of news. Digital tools are particularly promising for studying the history of news – a subject with so many sources that we can only start to access, catalogue, and analyze many of them with digitization and computer technology. Prof Tworek demonstrates how the class combines digital techniques with the history of news. By examining why newspapers printed particular stories and not others, both practitioners and students of digital history acquire skills in digital databases and analysis, mapping techniques, and oral presentation.
Registration: https://events.library.ubc.ca/dashboard/view/7051
Facilitator(s): Susan Atkey, Larissa Ringham, Allan Cho