The AHA's 127th Annual Meeting
The 127th annual meeting of the Association was held January 3–6, 2012, in New Orleans. To read more of the conversation on twitter, see #AHA2013, #AHA13, and #THATCampAHA.
- Exactly how many attended AHA 2013? AHA Deputy Director Robert Townsend has the numbers:
- The state of the tweet earned itself its own category of analysis and debate during the meeting.
My archive of 4,400+ (3,815 unique) tweets of {#AHA2013 OR #AHA13}; top 3: @JohnFea1 @amwhisnant @Teffinina bit.ly/108yjrA
@dancohen @marcparry How many people at AHA this year? The raw numbers may be on MLA's side, too. More people, more tweets.
@JenHoward @marcparry I don't think AHA releases the final number until Sat or Sun. But it's usually ~50% of MLA, I believe.
@JenHoward @dancohen @marcparry More of the #mla13 rooms seem to have WiFi than those at #AHA2013 / #AHA13 - may be a factor in tweet vol.- @JenHoward As I noted earlier, there are 16x tweets coming out of #mla13 vs. #aha13, so it's just the historians who are averse. @marcparry
- @marcparry For those interested, the London School of Economics has a good Twitter starter guide for academics: blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpol… #aha13
- #AHA2013 versus #AHA13
- Historians react to the meeting's opening night plenary session, "The Public Practice of History in and for the Digital Age."
#plenary #AHA2013: @wcronon: AHR from @ahahistorians will be available from @OUPacademic as ebook -- to members.
Follow @JohnFea1 @adamarenson @lincolnmullen for great tweets of #aha2013 plenary session on writing history for the public.- @tenuredradical mentions @annelamott Bird by Bird as motivation to write every day, blog as easy space (easy reward). #AHA2013
#aha2013 Potter defends her view that we need more Ph.Ds, not less.Why can't you have a Ph.D and be journalist? chronicle.com/blognetwork/te…
