New expanded course coming this fall! What role does social media play in the spread of historical falsehoods? Platforms like Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and YouTube are relatively new, but the hidden power structures that shape their content are not. This course explores the relationship between social media platforms and history in two ways. First, class…
Category: Social Media
New Journal of Social History Article: “The Other Little House: The Brothel as a Colonial Institution in the Canadian North West.”
Ranked one of the most read articles of 2022 by Oxford University Press Free access to the article here: https://doi.org/10.1093/jsh/shac018 What role did settler bawdy houses play in Canadian colonial expansion in the 1880s? The trial of “Big Nelly” Webb, a white bawdy house madam and sex worker who shot a Mounted Police constable on…
Social For Scholars
How do we make quality information go viral? This social media workshop offers academics, scientists, and other researchers an opportunity to learn how to successfully engage big social media audiences. The public deserves access to your strong, timely, academic work. With more than 40 million views for research on TikTok and Instagram, L.K. has some…
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