jiyun : me/we* and Dougherty
Digital history is redrawing the parameters of the discipline through transparency of processes towards publication which gives increased agency of ideation while discerning scholarly merit from the plurality of open access. This transparency also shifts a solitary private sometimes secret process into the potential for vast input along the way from community, students, peer review, and advisors. The digital process allows for greater interaction and manipulation following a non-linear form. [p.31] It expands expression into personal blogs, project websites, digital documentaries, games, apps, web-journals or even Wikipedia. The set of skills and tools for digital historians emphasizes curation over concerns to publish often with co-creators on multicontributor projects. The digital two-way exchange of ideas rather than one-way of books improves knowledge development processes. [p. 48]
When digital histories open source to the world wide web for broader audiences to access newer works, particularly to those who cannot always afford publishers hard cover publications, the digital options don’t re-coop any costs for copy rights, printings, and indexing [p.39]. While being seen by a specialized audience, digital opportunities increase scope at the loss of control unless protections are provided. The publish then filter mode of digital works makes it hard to discuss the quality of work for any deeper discussion especially when reviewers “sharply disagree.”[p. 58] Other places “innovation and open peer review can invigorate scholarly communication.” P. 59.
Ultimately in transparencies, "we" have to assess how "old fashioned" books and new AI technologies would interface with emerging epistemologies and ontologies amidst a pluralistic shift from institutional foundations rooted in ivory towers or ideation of white male Christian monotheistic dominance through modernism and consumerism towards emerging consciousness of a global vision that works as nature's biomorphic [human] realities imbibe a cultural and socio-economics of equity as valued by each unique member [multiple me] of a whole planetary awareness. That question of interconnections and who gets to decide what's best remains the more difficult question but given agency towards a wholeness, the technologies could serve rather than hold hostage our inner tendencies to be guided by impulse over mindful production of knowledge.
*poem by Mohammed Ali, 1975, Harvard
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