Digital Community Engagement – Partnering Communities with the Academy

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  • ISBN 9781947602519
  • Weight: 410g
  • Dimensions: 162 x 235mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Sep 2020
  • Publisher: University of Cincinnati Press
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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How have university scholars across a variety of disciplines navigated the co-creative and collaborative relationships involving community partners? How has the addition of digital components changed the way information can be communicated to the intended audience? Through digital projects, traditional academic silos have given way to community-based partnerships which open research, storytelling, and curation to wide array of contributors from civic engagement professionals, librarians, archivists, technology personnel, local citizens, and academics. The collaborative process may push your comfort zone and make you grapple with your roll of storytelling but as the authors of the last chapter say, “You can’t make ketchup without smashing a few tomatoes.”

Digital projects can empower communities through collaboration and 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, to 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. The case studies, authored by academics and their community partners, explore models for digital community engagement that leverage new media through reciprocal partnerships. The contributions to this volume stand at the crossroads of digital humanities, public history, and community

Rebecca Wingo is assistant professor of history and the Director of Public History at the University of Cincinnati. She is the author of Homesteading the Plains: Towards a New History

Jason Heppler is assistant professor and Digital Engagement Librarian at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, where he leads initiatives in community engagement and digital humanities. 

Paul Schadewald is the Associate Director of the Civic Engagement Center in the Institute for Global Citizenship at Macalester College in St. Paul, MN. 

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