Since the 1962 publication of The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere by Jürgen Habermas, the history business has had quite the cottage industry in what might best be called “Public Sphere Studies.” Historians of many stripes–political historians, cultural historians, social historians, and even the occasional economic or military historian–have written reams about the creation,…
Tag: History of Digital Media
How Big is Too Big?
As I have previously noted, Wikipedia’s editors have gotten into the business of assigning certain Wikipedia entries to the dustbin of history for not being “notable” enough. The implication of this guideline for entries is that there is only so much space on the servers housing Wikipedia and so those precious megabytes (terrabytes?) shouldn’t be…
The Way We Were
Regular readers of Edwired will note that the design changed over the weekend. Those handsome geeks in the picture are working away on a Sperry Univac. When I was a kid we actually went on a field trip to the Sperry facility in Washington, D.C., and got to see one of those behemoths in action….