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Digital Community Engagement

Partnering Communities with the Academy

by Rebecca S. Wingo (editor)Jason A. Heppler (editor)Paul Schadewald (editor)
Contributors: Marvin AndersonAriel BeaujotJulia BrockIlidi Carlisle-CumminsPatrick CollierJames ConnollyKarlyn FornerMelissa A. HubbardElaine-Washington HunterRobin MorrisShaneé Yvette MurrainAllison SchuetteAmy SullivanMegan TelligmanAubrey ThompsonElizabeth Wuerffel

2021 Best Book of the Year, National Council on Public History



Digital projects empower communities through collaboration, create new primary sources, collapse barriers, and spark new dialogue. Digital Community Engagement “lifts the hood” and presents nine examples of digital collaborations from constructing a public response, to police violence, creating digital stories of homelessness to young activists united around local people in the Deep South to build a grassroots movement for social change.

Wingo, Heppler and Schadewald bring together cutting-edge campus-community partnerships with a focus on digital projects. This collection explores models for digital community engagement that leverage new media through reciprocal academic-community partnerships. The contributors to this volume stand at the crossroads of digital humanities, public history, and community engagement.

This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to a generous TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem) grant from the University of CincinnatiToward an Open Monograph Ecosystem
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Background image: A group of students and Rondo residents chat over lunch. Photo courtesy of Macalester College.

Praise for Digital Community Engagement

“This volume offers a powerful intervention in public humanities and public histories, contextualizing and offering case studies on a series of projects that fit under the rubric of what the editors call “DiCE” or “Digital Community Engagement.”

—Risam Roopika, Salem State University

“[The editors bring together] a diverse set of community-focused, digital public history projects that nonetheless cohere into a unified work. The case studies are immediately relevant to the concerns of community organizers, activists, and practitioners working today.”

—Alexandra Werner-Winslow, Appalshop

Table of Contents

  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • A Letter to Future Community Partners
  • Introduction
  • 1 Learn from the Past, Organize for the Future
  • 2 Archival Resistance to Structural Racism
  • 3 Harvesting History, Remembering Rondo
  • 4 “Send Out a Little Light”
  • 5 Seen and Heard
  • 6 Everyday Life in Middletown
  • 7 Mobilizing Digital Stories
  • 8 Hear, Here
  • 9 You Can’t Make Ketchup Without Smashing a Few Tomatoes
  • DiCE Biographies
  • Index

Resources

Single Resources

  • Audio

    Listen: Oral history from Antoiwana Williams

  • Video

    Watch: Phillip Agnew, co-founder of Dream Defenders, speaks on the panel, “Contemporary Activists Respond to the SNCC Digital Gateway,” at the SNCC Digital Gateway closing events at North Carolina Central University in Durham, North Carolina, March 24, 2018. Video courtesy of the SNCC Digital Gateway Project and Duke University Libraries

  • Audio

    Listen: Lee Hertel, a Harm Reduction History Harvest participant discusses his experience working in harm reduction in Minnesota (pay special attention to 3:35 through 6:25)

  • Video

    LISTEN: "Seeking Some Level of Normalcy"

  • Video

    Watch: Sundown Towns by Jenny DeRocher

  • Video

    Watch Patterns: Examining American Indian Imagery in La Crosse

  • Audio

    Listen: Oral history from Martin Peeples

  • Audio

    Listen: Oral history from Shaundel Spivey

  • Audio

    Listen: Girl Scout participants singing three campfire songs, “Linger,” “Green Trees,” and “Taps'

  • Video

    Watch: "A Roof Over Your Head"

29 Total Resources

Metadata

  • container title
    Digital Community Engagement: Partnering Communities with the Academy
  • edition
    1
  • isbn
    9781947602519
  • original title
    Digital Community Engagement: Partnering Communities with the Academy
  • publisher
    University of Cincinnati Press
  • publisher place
    Cincinnati, OH
  • rights
    Worldwide print and digital rights. Creative Commons License
  • rights holder
    University of Cincinnati
  • rights territory
    worldwide
  • version
    open access
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