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Public History 2.0:
Strategies and Pitfalls
       Jessica Clark
       www.futureofpublicmedia.net
What¡¯s Public Media 2.0?

  ? Our de?nition:
    Media for public knowledge and action

    Such projects provide content and contexts
    for publics to form around shared issues
Organization of American Historians 2010
Public History 2.0:

  ? Overlaps with public media
   ?   Converging content

   ?   Multiplying platforms

   ?   Active users

   ?   Experimental strategies
Tectonic shifts

  ? rise of broadband
  ? escalating mobile penetration
  ? maps, mashups and data viz
  ? ubiquitous participation
  ? content ¡°in the cloud¡±
  ? news and public media APIs
Emerging habits

  ? conversation
  ? curation
  ? collaboration
  ? ...and, for historians, conservation
Strategy #1: converse

  ? Veterans History Project:
Strategy #2: curate

  ? Water Con?ict Map:
Strategy #3: collaborate

  ? Digital Diaspora Family Reunion:
At risk: conservation

  ? Twitter Vote Report:
? NOTE: create visual that
  demonstrates national network and
  new collaborative roles for stations




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