Papers by Despoina Valatsou
Valatsou, Despoina, «Does Digital History Change History? Historical Narrative, Hypertext & Visualization of the Past» ΙΜΕρος 2 (2002), 29-38, 2002
In this article I examine issues resulting from the convergence of history and new media technolo... more In this article I examine issues resulting from the convergence of history and new media technologies. My main focus lies in the process of representing and communicating the past and I attempt to trace the changes that this process undergoes under the impact of hypertext, the internet and multimedia technologies. Particular attention is given to the element of vision and the potential of new media technologies to create novel – optical ways of representing the past.
"Το ψηφιακό μέλλον του παρελθόντος: ψηφιακά αρχεία, σύγχρονες προσεγγίσεις και προοπτικές", 2024
"The digital future of the past: digital archives, contemporary approaches and future perspective... more "The digital future of the past: digital archives, contemporary approaches and future perspectives."
Digitality, both as a concept and as a constitutive element of contemporary culture, influences the ways and practices of working, as well as the methodological approaches and choices that define research in the humanities, social sciences and arts in general, and in history in particular. Especially regarding digital archives, the implications of digital technologies are massive. This article presents the 1821 Digital Archive of the Research Centre for the Humanities (RCH) and attempts to illustrate how one can imagine and design a thematic digital archive that is scientifically valid and technologically innovative. ln other words, how can one study, record and present aspects of a historical period through a variety of archival material and original research, with renewed themes of study and novel ways of narrating and representing the past within the digital realm.
Valatsou, Despoina, "The emergence of new sites of memory on the internet"
This PhD Thesis studies diverse kinds of memory websites where historical content and information... more This PhD Thesis studies diverse kinds of memory websites where historical content and information is produced not only by professional historians but increasingly by the public, current digital forms of personal and collective historical memories and testimonies produced and disseminated online, as well as the ways through which a novel historical culture about the past is being forged. The basic characteristic, common to all the websites studied here, is the public’s dynamic participation in this process of remembering the past, either by producing new historical content and information (personal stories, memories and testimonies in various forms, i.e. text, image, sound etc., based on a sentimental and emotional approach of the past; also, collaboratively written encyclopedic texts of historical content), and/or by enriching already available historical content and information, mainly through practices such as transcribing, documenting, adding metadata, tagging etc. What seems imp...
HISTOREIN, 2014
Digital history, among other things, offers the possibility for people to collaborate and work to... more Digital history, among other things, offers the possibility for people to collaborate and work together on historical projects online. The notion of crowdsourcing is essential in this process, as well as in the theoretical study and approach of the field of digital humanities.
HISTOREIN, 2009
How is this emerging testimonial culture interconnected with a more general process of sentimenta... more How is this emerging testimonial culture interconnected with a more general process of sentimentalisation of public memory and historical culture on online memory
Βαλατσού, Δέσποινα, "Ανάδυση νέων μνημονικών τόπων στο διαδίκτυο"
Η διατριβή μελετά διαδικτυακούς μνημονικούς τόπους όπου συγκεντρώνεται, παράγεται και διατίθεται ... more Η διατριβή μελετά διαδικτυακούς μνημονικούς τόπους όπου συγκεντρώνεται, παράγεται και διατίθεται ιστορικό περιεχόμενο, συγκροτούνται σύγχρονες μορφές ατομικής και συλλογικής ιστορικής μνήμης και μαρτυρίας, και διαμορφώνεται μια σύγχρονη ιστορική κουλτούρα στο διαδίκτυο μέσα από τη διαπλοκή της με την ανθρώπινη συναισθηματική εμπειρία και πρόσληψη του παρελθόντος. Αυτοί οι διαδικτυακοί τόποι βασίζονται στην ενεργητική συμμετοχή του σύγχρονου υποκειμένου α) στην παραγωγή νέου ιστορικού περιεχομένου, αφενός με την κατάθεση προσωπικών ιστοριών, μνημών και μαρτυριών στη βάση μιας συναισθηματικής πρόσληψης του παρελθόντος, που ιχνογραφούν ψήγματα της ατομικής μνήμης και ταυτόχρονα συναποτελούν ψηφίδες της συλλογικής μνήμης, αλλά και αφετέρου με τη συνεργατική συγγραφή κειμένων ιστορικού περιεχομένου εγκυκλοπαιδικού χαρακτήρα, και β) στον εμπλουτισμό ήδη υπάρχοντος ιστορικού περιεχομένου, κυρίως με την ψηφιακή μεταγραφή ιστορικών τεκμηρίων και τη συνεισφορά ιστορικών πληροφοριών και μεταδε...
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Papers by Despoina Valatsou
Digitality, both as a concept and as a constitutive element of contemporary culture, influences the ways and practices of working, as well as the methodological approaches and choices that define research in the humanities, social sciences and arts in general, and in history in particular. Especially regarding digital archives, the implications of digital technologies are massive. This article presents the 1821 Digital Archive of the Research Centre for the Humanities (RCH) and attempts to illustrate how one can imagine and design a thematic digital archive that is scientifically valid and technologically innovative. ln other words, how can one study, record and present aspects of a historical period through a variety of archival material and original research, with renewed themes of study and novel ways of narrating and representing the past within the digital realm.