1. Public History 2.0:
Strategies and Pitfalls
Jessica Clark
www.futureofpublicmedia.net

2. What’s Public Media 2.0?
‣ Our definition:
Media for public knowledge and action
Such projects provide content and contexts
for publics to form around shared issues

4. Public History 2.0:
‣ Overlaps with public media
‣ Converging content
‣ Multiplying platforms
‣ Active users
‣ Experimental strategies

5. Tectonic shifts
‣ rise of broadband
‣ escalating mobile penetration
‣ maps, mashups and data viz
‣ ubiquitous participation
‣ content “in the cloud”
‣ news and public media APIs

6. Emerging habits
‣ conversation
‣ curation
‣ collaboration
‣ ...and, for historians, conservation

7. Strategy #1: converse
‣ Veterans History Project:

8. Strategy #2: curate
‣ Water Conflict Map:

9. Strategy #3: collaborate
‣ Digital Diaspora Family Reunion:

10. At risk: conservation
‣ Twitter Vote Report:

11. ‣ NOTE: create visual that
demonstrates national network and
new collaborative roles for stations
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