Facebook Deletes University's History Project for Violating Social Network's Rules
Nick DeSantis:
The two students brought back to life on Facebook by a University of Nevada at Reno librarian have been returned to the history books for violating the social network’s terms of service… . Before the accounts were taken offline, Ms. Curtis used the couple’s profiles to give students a glimpse of university life in the early 20th century. When Ms. Curtis logged in to update their profiles today, she was greeted with a message that said the profiles had been suspended.
The Utopianism of the Digital Humanities
Andrew Hartman, a participant at THATcamp AHA, isn’t so sure about digital humanities:
I came away somewhat skeptical of what I sensed was a utopianism among many of the digital humanists and historians at THATCamp. In one session that I attended—on the question, “What Are the Digital Humanities?” (still debated, not surprisingly, since the much older question, “What Are the Humanities?” has yet to be resolved either)—some of the participants made claims that digitalization has created a fundamental, even epistemological shift in how we think about history. I am underwhelmed.
