7.+Historiographic+Theories

**Basics:**

 * This section contains information about data visualization, historiography, and post-colonialism. Historiography is a perspective on an event and how it is interpreted. The contents below creatively explain historiography and provide information to broaden understanding of this topic.**



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**Data Visualization: Journalism's Voyage West - Dongni**
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I ran across this awesome map which documented the history of the growth of newspapers across the U.S. from 1690 to 2011. It is a very powerful and interactive way to learn the history of Journalism. Since more and more people prefer to obtain their news from online media platforms, the newspaper industry is facing a huge challenge right now. In fact, newspapers not only document the news, they also turn the news into history profiles when the news were no longer new. It just so interesting to see how newspaper, a tool which documents history developing its own history from this map. The data use in this map comes from the Library of Congress' "Chronicling America" project. You can obtain more information about this project from their website: [] (Actually, they have digitized newspaper from 1836 to 1922! )

**Historiography and Memes - Brandon**
I took to my addiction to stupid Internet humor as a way to discuss historiography. The images below are examples of Internet "memes" that I made in response to the readings from historiography and Nietzschean philosophy. Each follows its own set of parameters for proper usage in order for them to be accepted or "voted up" among the particular cyber-culture that uses them. The implication that there is a right and wrong way to use these memes is indicative of cultural norms created through historical usages of them. This site, KnowYourMeme.com, provides a historical foundation for how these memes originated and how they are supposed to be properly used. It goes as far back to determine the actual etymology of the meme. For instance, here is the explanation of the "Philosoraptor" meme (also seen below):


 * Philosoraptor ** is an image macro series featuring a clip art of Velociraptor deeply immersed in metaphysical inquiries or unraveling quirky paradoxes. One of the more thoughtful (and successful) Advice Dog variations, Philosoraptor challenges the reader with his deep, existential, Paleolithic questions. See also: Raptor Jesus



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Post-Colonial Faux-Pas: "I love Fidel Castro"
Below is a link to Ozzie Guillen's press conference apology to the Miami Marlins fans, and to anyone else in Guillen's words, "if I have offended them," for expressing support for Fidel Castro. In an interview with Time magazine, Guillen said, "I love Fidel Castro," and expressed his respect for him. The first year Marlin's manager realized the harsh consequences of these comments only after the interview went viral and it is not surprise that the Marlin's will pay a price in Miami, a metropolis filled with Cuban Americans who have fled the reign of Castro from Cuba. In addition to an apology, Guillen also said in a Tuesday statement, "The pain and suffering caused by Fidel Castro cannot be minimized, especially in a community filled with victims of the dictatorship." Based on the reactions from the South Florida Cuban American population, it seems that this after statement is only taken from the mouth of a liar. Based on what we learned about history from Nietzsche and whether or not to place merit on historical actions, it seems that unless you were a part of the horrific history it is not a good place for someone outside of the oppressed group to make any sort of statement that could lessen the horrific effects of countries that are under rule of communist leaders.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/04/10/2739843/miami-marlins-ozzie-guillen-in.html#storylink=cpy media type="custom" key="14087236"


 * Post Colonialism -Michael & Sarah**

The following PowerPoint shows a brief overview of Post Colonialism. To be clear, this is a body of study that draws on various other fields like human geography, history, political science and anthropology to name a few. This historical approach looks at a body/state/nation which was colonized by an separate body/state/nation. While it is easy to study and project findings in history from an outsider perspective, Post Colonialism requires studying a colonized state from their voice. Voice can be studied through accounts, artifacts, and other acts of cultural preservation. It is more than just looking at the Developing South from the Global North academic perspective, it is truly submerging yourself into the colonized group before and after through existing artifacts.




 * Here's the etching Certeau describes at the very beginning of his Preface - Trav**



**Postcolonialism, Orientalism, and Implications of the stereotype of Muslim women as a patriarchal and western construction: Lauren**
As an undergraduate I took a course called "Constructing Islam" in which we looked into how Orientalism distorts ideas of Islam in Western society. Especially since September 11, 2001 when terrorists claimed such tragedy was ordained by their Islamic beliefs, American have increased their distrust of the alien, oriental culture, instead hoping to homogenize Islamic adherents to the "American Christian Ideal". In one of the papers I created I examined the implications of the stereotype of Muslim women as a patriarchal and western construction.

**What is History?!: Colleen**
Just a quick video helping to explain what historiography is: **[|What is History?]**

So the study of historical perspectives, historiography is the written form of the perspective on a certain event. Understanding that history can be explained with different perspectives in mind I wanted to search how a writer would approach the writing of historiography and found some of the following websites. The collection of these websites offer different advice on how to approach the written form of history. Much of the advice listed was reflected from class with one essential point, that there is various interpretations of the event. The websites offer examples to look at and a step-by-step process explaining what the given example is writing about in means of explaining history. [|Claremont Graduate University] [|The University of Kansas] [|Trent University] [|Queens College]

Facebook makes history- Beth
As we are talking about history, and how it is made, interpreted and so forth. It made me think of my recent force to adapt Facebook Timeline. Facebook timeline is essentially a way to keep track of your own life history, through posting events in a chronological order on the wall. Facebook says this is a new way to tell your story, but I would argue it's more like your own history. Imagine if Facebook was originally created to do this- I feel like today's uses of Facebook would be very different. This video makes timeline look really cool, but it is not the same. These two websites tell you more about timeline and how to use it, change privacy settings, and other things. I can't figure out why the other url is in the middle sorry. Ughh I might be a little more ok with timeline now, though. media type="youtube" key="hzPEPfJHfKU" height="315" width="560" [|Facebook Blog about Timeline] ** [|Facebook Timeline] **