Huge support for your calls for literacies: tech, media, ai, info, statistical, et al. Our vision is clouded too by the idea of generations of “digital natives” who have some literacies, but more often facilities with a new wave of specific applications/practices. Being a creator can build literacies and is probably the most compelling way to hook people into building their own literacies…
That must have been a fascinating, and somewhat frustrating, experience. Separating history from nostalgia seems to me to be one of the most important parts of public history. I don't see the academic historians wrestling very much with that phenomenon. I'm not really sure participants in the early Internet have sufficient detachment to make a distinction between nostalgia and history. I most of us have a hard time separating the two.
Huge support for your calls for literacies: tech, media, ai, info, statistical, et al. Our vision is clouded too by the idea of generations of “digital natives” who have some literacies, but more often facilities with a new wave of specific applications/practices. Being a creator can build literacies and is probably the most compelling way to hook people into building their own literacies…
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That must have been a fascinating, and somewhat frustrating, experience. Separating history from nostalgia seems to me to be one of the most important parts of public history. I don't see the academic historians wrestling very much with that phenomenon. I'm not really sure participants in the early Internet have sufficient detachment to make a distinction between nostalgia and history. I most of us have a hard time separating the two.
There are a few historians who have worked on the topic:
Tobias Becker has a book that came out last year https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674251755 -- and years ago Thomas Dodman had a book: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/W/bo27256207.html