Collaborative tools and collective production of historical records
After reading an article of Immanuel Wallerstein, I tranformed the questions posted in January in an argument for my thesis. In Writing History he discusses the historians’ role showing how the veracity of the information put forward by historians has been challenged in recent years - since every analysis involves an interpretation which is colored by the social and personal biography of the interpreter and by the pressures of the moment at which the interpretation is being made.
While the role of historians is questioned, there remains the question about who is going to take the historians’ role of creating and preserving collective memory. (more…)