Review: Handbook of Digital Public History, edited by Serge Noiret, Mark Tebeau, and Gerben Zaagsma

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Book Review| May 01 2023 Review: Handbook of Digital Public History, edited by Serge Noiret, Mark Tebeau, and Gerben Zaagsma Handbook of Digital Public History, edited by Serge Noiret, Mark Tebeau, and Gerben Zaagsma. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2022. ix + 553 pp., illustrations; hardcover, $183.99. Joanna Wojdon Joanna Wojdon University of Wrocław (Poland) Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2023) 45 (2): 152–154. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2023.45.2.152 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Joanna Wojdon; Review: Handbook of Digital Public History, edited by Serge Noiret, Mark Tebeau, and Gerben Zaagsma. The Public Historian 1 May 2023; 45 (2): 152–154. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2023.45.2.152 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentThe Public Historian Search This collection of essays by over fifty authors addresses the early twenty-first century digital turn in the field of public history. Forty-six chapters, grouped in four parts, cover various aspects of both public history and the digital world, providing readers with multiple approaches and perspectives that originate from a variety of personal experiences, ethnic, racial, national or transnational viewpoints, academic or non-academic backgrounds, institutional or non-institutional contexts. As a result, the picture of digital public history (DPH) is multifaceted and heterogeneous, as the debates on and uncertainties of the definition of public history have been multiplied by the debates on and uncertainties of the definition of digital. To be sure, most authors perceive digital as something more than just produced with the use of a computer or the internet (see especially the chapter by Andreas Fickers in this regard). They do refer to technological achievements that led to the development... You do not currently have access to this content.