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In this digital landscape, the archival-oriented media theories of Wolfgang Ernst are particularly relevant. Digital Memory and the Archive, the first English-language collection of the German media theorist’s work, brings together essays that…

This website is an archive of digital history sources and resources. Filtering by either era, region, or topic brings the user to a dedicated portal which includes an interactive timelime, biographic information, articles, videos, visual resources,…

At its inception, U.S. copyright law was intended to be a limited federal grant for the public good that promoted creative expression while balancing the First Amendment’s freedom of speech. Changes in the copyright law since 1976, compounded by the…

In his foundational new media text, Nelson describes literature itself as a series of interconnecting documents, and suggests that society needs a universal system for storing and preserving texts. Though he writes in the early 1980s, Nelson's…

This website contains multigenre, immersive educational experiences to engage with digitial history and the humanities. It offers interactive approaches to primary source documents that enable users to explore, analyze, and engage with the material.…

Jerome McGann’s focus in this essay is directed at how crucial it is to establish both research and online scholarship as we reconsider the humanities in the digital age. He highlights the “systematic institutional dysfunction” as the crisis in…

In his essay, Lev Manovich argues for the database as the key form of expression in digital culture, stating that the new cultural algorithm is a progression of information from reality, to media, to data, to the database. Manovich connects database…

In this article, Sean Latham discusses the changes to scholarly work since more and more archival work has become available through digital means. He examines how the constraints imposed by the former print-only text have been removed by digital…

Digital humanities is a new, emerging field and only recently has it started to take more notice of its application. T. Mills Kelly synthesizes the changes over time of digital history within the two decades. This book serves as a platform for people…

A guide to the emerging field of digital asset management, featuring quotes from industry experts, job descriptions, and case studies.