Sunday, February 5, 2017

Rosenzweig!!!!!!


The introduction to Rosenzweig's Digital History provides some thought-provoking concepts of the medium that one likely has not stopped to think deeply about:  Capacity, accessibility, flexibility, diversity, manupulability, interactity, and hypertextuality, as well as the hazards of quality, durability, readability, passivity, and inaccessibility are concepts that the digital historian should be required to keep in mind at all times.  If even one of the harzards are present, then the quality of the overall work is degraded.  These qualities are perhaps the most important aspect of this introduction.

At this point, I would like my final project to be a digital history of Afghanistan.  This is an important location in modern history, and I think that most people don't understand it's history and how that history is important today.

The NVCC and GMU online libraries don't appear to be user friendly.  They do not easily allow users to read the actual texts.  GMU seems to have a firewall which will not allow non-GMU students to read the texts.

About the author


My name is Justin Kubiak.  I currently live in Fairfax County, but have lived in several states before settling down in Virginia since 2006.  I was raised in Florida and Arizona.  I am interested in increasing my knowledge of digital history, as this is a fast-growing medium that is here to stay.