Live-Tweeting "Presenting Historical Research Using Digital Media Panel at AHA 2012

A collection of the live-tweeting I did (plus a few others I re-tweeted as well) for the panel on presenting history through digital media at the 2012 American Historical Association annual conference in Chicago this last weekend. The panel took place in the morning on Saturday, January 7, 2012.

  1. Full disclosure: I attended this early Saturday morning panel because I am friends with two of the presenters, Lemont Dobson (aka Lemon-T) and Katrina Gulliver (aka the Pied Piper of Twitterstorians), hence my gentle ribbing throughout.

    Anyway, you can find more information about this panel, entitled "Presenting Historical Research Using Digital Media," on the AHA's online conference program here.
  2. More live tweeting #AHA2012; this time panel on Presenting Historical Research Using Digital Media.
  3. Come on, Storify, it's not that hard to catch the URL, which is here.
  4. 1st up: @lemont on telling stories in new ways, using film and documentary... #AHA2012
  5. Well, @Lemont is showing an edited snip of his America From the Ground Up docu... Link on their website. #AHA2012
  6. Here's the full pilot episode for Dr. Dobson's forthcoming PBS series. During the panel, he showed a few snippets from the episode, not the whole thing.
  7. Heh, @lemont in the Springfield landfill cracks me up so much... #AHA2012
  8. RT @jaheppler: .@lemont previewing his upcoming PBS series, America: From the Ground Up vimeo.com/27874873 #aha2012
  9. I re-tweeted this because Jason passed on the URL for the video, which I wasn't going to try to mess around with on my phone. I should also point out at this time that his live-tweeting for this panel was really good. Go look for it if you want greater context and other points that I did not mention or notice.
  10. Dobson: inspiration for doing films was as lecture supplementary material - making animated maps, voice over snippets. #AHA2012
  11. Dobson: Project evolved into an archaeological HST of US that doesn't mention G. Washington "He gets enough press." #AHA2012
  12. Uh oh, don't diss G-Wash, dude. It might bite you in the ass later...
  13. Dobson: Wants to transmit alternative narrative of US HST, non-eastern centric. #AHA2012
  14. Dobson: half hour ep he's done cost about $14,000. Notes academics don't think about the costs of this, so leverage uni assets. #AHA2012
  15. Next up, Phil Ethington: notes that this isn't all about playing w/ digital toys. Content is key as well. #AHA2012
  16. Ethington now demonstrating Hypercities, not just for spatial analytics & data storage, but a tool to tell stories in new ways. #AHA2012
  17. Ethington is: showing HST & narratives embedded into a Hypercities map of Filipino Town in LA. Cool. #AHA2012
  18. The whole Hypercities tool is awesome. i will definitely be mucking around with it.

    Absent from my live-tweeting on Ethington's talk was the fact that he had some awesomely Nosferatu-esque fingers he kept waving around. My Wife (deven1ak on Twitter), who was attending the panel, was the one who pointed it out to me, but she wouldn't let me tweet about it.
  19. Not being mean in the slightest. Just thought it was awesome.

    Strange, drug-fuelled observation complete, back to the live-tweeting...
  20. Next up: @katrinagulliver on podcasting. Starts by saying that she is digital humanities and so can you. #AHA2012
  21. Gulliver: tip #1, if doing a digital project, buy your own domain. It's cheap and helps w/ branding. #AHA2012

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Andrew D Devenney

historian of european integration, visiting asst professor @ grand valley state university, tweeting The Truth since 2008

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