History 419 Fall 2022

     Chapter 5 deals with historical blogs, and how they revolutionized access and discussion of history through using the internet. Blogs offered enjoyable reads while also offering a wide range of historical topics, based on where you looked. Also, because blogs were created on an individual basis, each blog was unique and each author had their own way of doing history. It seems today that blogs, for the most part, are dead, but I would say that they are still around, just in different mediums. Now in the age of visuals and screens, historians and history enthusiasts have created websites, channels, and countless videos about their historical interests and research. For example, YouTube channels like Tasting History, A Day In History, and Weird History are all informative platforms, just like a blog, and have their own unique way of telling history, just like a blog. If anything, you could say these are upgraded blogs, as historians now have the ability to do more than ...

 Chapter 5 discusses how the writing of history has changed over time. A main focus of this chapter is on journals and how they specifically have changed since they have pretty much always existed. Of course with the evolution of technology, journals have now been moved to an online platform. This is obviously useful to us as young students because we can look up scholarly journals on things like JSTOR and EBSCO. Of course we can go into the library or something as well to find old physical journals that may not have been transferred to an online format but that is far less likely, so writing online is much more desirable in this day and age. Historical journals and just journals in general have always been around but in this new ear of digital communication there are so many more possibilities since everything is so much more accessible. 

 The use of social media in history has become argumentative, collective, and difficult to decipher the real from the fake.  The nature of many of the apps have lead the history corner of said apps like twitter to become unsustainable for productive discussion in the eyes of many.  This is not to say there are not resources available on twitter.  As I have mentioned previously in this class there is a great resource of Ukraine war footage.  This is a resource, and a strength to short form sites like twitter.  The problem and reason academics are leaving is because of the uncertainty that comes with this, as well as the wide spread use of bot accounts that make understanding a video or its context virtually impossible. There is room in the history field for these unprofessional sites, and I personally think they are necessary for the pooling of raw information and unfortunately false information.  It should be on these other sites where a more long form...

       Scholarly conversations used to account for tenures and promotions through journals back in the day. As journals continues, historians however evolved communication by newsletters through postal systems, blogs, discussion blogs, and then social media creating communities for historians. Blogs were created to feel more connected and it allowed many and all to log in and read.  It was a way to create a cohort of like minded people. Blogs transformed into projects, research outputs and keynotes for books. Blogging was the clearest wat that connections were built influenced by technology. Blogs were the starting propel of new platforms for communication such as twitter. Twitter allowed conversations to towards a more real life chat feel. In other words, the platform of blogging through technology, still used today, influenced other means of communication for historians

 In this chapter, Crymble focuses on the use of blog posts and the internet when it comes to historians documenting history and writing scholarly articles. It explores how it has changed the conversation and how academic journals or articles are written online. Crymble writes, "This notion of a space of one's own was important for early bloggers. Commenting would rise in prominence over time, but the blog was the domain of the blogger. You could visit, but there could be no mistaking whose space it was." Though this seemed like something new for this way of writing history, Crymble believes it was not a huge revolutionary change but just an evolution of the way scholarly articles are done into a different form of consumption. It will be interesting to see with social media and other aspects, just how this continues to evolve. 

Chapter 5 talks about the rise and fall of Scholarly Blogs. These started out as scholarly journals which started in 1665, published in Pairs. Starting with the postal system then moved through to social media and blogs there were new virtual communities of historians that developed. This transformed a new era of Digital communication. With the changing of technology developments allowed historians to communicate in new ways and gave them new opportunities to share their ideas. This chapter really made me understand what an evolution it was to be able to blog. The second wave of blogging is writing together. Historians are able to work together, giving different outlooks, and breaking down some challenges that they were not able to do before this. Blogging has led to new ideas and new voices in the study of history. 

 Chapter Five discusses the creating of writing in our history. There have been different forms of writing throughout history dating back to thousands of years ago, but the progression of writing too today has developed significantly. This chapter discusses journals and how they are used today. There are journals that are used for a variety of different reasons. Journals are mainly used to keep track of information or thoughts that have popped up. This could be seen as a journal because it is the putting down of knowledge to paper. Journals have originally been written by hand but overtime there have been advancements in technology which have allowed for them to be written on the computer.