This document discusses strategies for public history projects in the digital age. It defines public media 2.0 as media that provides content and contexts for publics to form around shared issues. Key shifts in technology like rising broadband and mobile access enable emerging habits like conversation, curation, and collaboration for historians online. The document outlines three strategies - converse, curate, and collaborate - and notes the risk of losing conservation of historical information online if not properly managed.
2. 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
4. Public History 2.0:
? Overlaps with public media
? Converging content
? Multiplying platforms
? Active users
? Experimental strategies
5. Tectonic shifts
? rise of broadband
? escalating mobile penetration
? maps, mashups and data viz
? ubiquitous participation
? content ¡°in the cloud¡±
? news and public media APIs