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Making stories significant: Possibilities and challenges at the intersection of digital methods and historic preservation
Author(s) -
Summer Rebecca,
Nelson Garrett Dash
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
area
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.958
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1475-4762
pISSN - 0004-0894
DOI - 10.1111/area.12395
Subject(s) - intersection (aeronautics) , field (mathematics) , public history , aesthetics , sociology , public engagement , computer science , epistemology , visual arts , media studies , public relations , political science , art , geography , cartography , mathematics , philosophy , pure mathematics
This paper reflects on a digital public history project conducted by the authors in Madison, Wisconsin. It uses these reflections to show how digital methods can create new possibilities in the field of historic preservation, and to emphasise that new technology alone does not cut through old challenges relating to public engagement. The bias towards newness and fluidity in digital methods offers an instructive contrast to the bias towards permanence and continuity in historic preservation. Bringing these two worlds into dialogue offers the possibility of strengthening each.