How Social Media has Changed History

TheLuxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH)is an interdisciplinary research centre of the University of Luxembourg, focusing on high-quality research, analysis and public dissemination in the field of contemporary Luxembourgish and European history.It promotes an interdisciplinary approach to the field of contemporary history with a particular focus on new digital methods and tools for historical research and teaching.

C²DH / University of Luxembourg

Talk with author and public historian Jason Steinhauer.

Social Media and the World Wide Web have reconfigured what we know about the past. In this talk, author and public historian Jason Steinhauer will discuss how social media shapes what we know about history, and why some information about the past becomes visible online, and why other information we never see.Jason Steinhauer is an author, public historian, podcast host, founder of the History Communication Institute, creator of History Club and a Global Fellow at The Wilson Center. He is the author of the best-selling book History, Disrupted: How Social Media &amp; the World Wide Web Have Changed the Past.This is a hybrid event. Register to follow the talk online or send an e-mail to marie-laure.glowacki@uni.lu to attend in-person (University of Luxembourg, Belval Campus).

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