The Big Picture The article “Photography as a Weapon”, exposes the perfect example of how the wrong information could be incredibly dangerous. The article itself uses as an example a doctored photograph of Iranian missles. This article written by Errol Morris presents the following questions about photographs. “Do they provide illustration of a text or […]
The Problem “Whereas analog data is a varying and continuous stream, digital data is only a sampling of the original data that is then encoded into the 1s and 0s that a computer understands” (Cohen).” Above is in a nutshell what faces today’s digital historians. Since the data historians receive from analog has no breaks […]
Who Were the Cunning-Folk? In the 13th century a group of unusual individuals were gaining prominence in the European Community. These people claimed special powers and offered their services to those of all walks of life. Popular terms for the male practitioners were “wizard and conjurer” (Davies VII) and after the 20th century the term […]