Digital Community Engagement brings together cutting-edge campus-community partnerships with a focus on digital projects. Through a series of case studies authored by academics and their community partners, this collection explores models for digital community engagement that leverage new media through reciprocal partnerships. The contributions to this volume stand at the crossroads of digital humanities, public history, and community engagement.
By:
Rebecca Wingo,
Jason Heppler,
Paul Schadewald,
Rebecca Wingo,
Rebecca Wingo
Imprint: University of Cincinnati Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 235mm,
Width: 162mm,
Spine: 20mm
Weight: 410g
ISBN: 9781947602519
ISBN 10: 1947602519
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 01 September 2020
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Acknowledgements Letter to Future Community Partners Introduction 1. Learn from the Past, Organize for the Future: Building the SNCC Digital Gateway 2. Archival Resistance to Structural Racism: A People’s Archive of Police Violence in Cleveland 3. Harvesting History, Remembering Rondo 4. “Send Out a Little Light”: The Antioch A.M.E. Digital Archive 5. Seen and Heard: Using DiCE to Reconnect Communities and Enrich History Pedagogy 6. Everyday Life in Middletown: The Archive as Community 7. Mobilizing Digital Stories: Collaborating to Educate and Engage a Local Public in Realities of Homelessness 8. Hear, Here: Digital History and Community Engagement Activating Social Change 9. You Can’t Make Ketchup Without Smashing a Few Tomatoes: Reflections on a University-Community Partnership DiCE Biographies Index
Rebecca Wingo is assistant professor of history and the Director of Public History at the University of Cincinnati. She is the author of Homesteading the Plains: Towards a New History. Jason Heppler is assistant professor and Digital Engagement Librarian at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, where he leads initiatives in community engagement and digital humanities. Paul Schadewald is the Associate Director of the Civic Engagement Center in the Institute for Global Citizenship at Macalester College in St. Paul, MN.
Reviews for Digital Community Engagement – Partnering Communities with the Academy
"“This book offers a powerful intervention in public humanities and public histories, contextualizing and offering case studies on a series of projects that fit under the rubric of what the editors call “DiCE” or “Digital Community Engagement. * Roopika Risam, Salem State University * “[The editors bring together] a diverse set of community-focused, digital public history projects that nonetheless cohere into a unified work. The case studies are immediately relevant to the concerns of community organizers, activists, and practitioners working today."" * Alexandra Werner-Winslow, Appalshop *"