René Smolarski

Friedrich Schiller University Jena | FSU · Digital Humanities (Image/Object)

Der erste Band der Schriftenreihe des Netzwerks für digitale Geisteswissenschaften und Citizen Science widmet sich der Frage nach der praktischen Ausgestaltung kooperativer Forschungsprozesse in den Digital Humanities und Citizen Science im Zusammenspiel von Geisteswissenschaft, Digital Humanities, Informatik und weiteren Akteuren. Ausgehend von ei...

1982 stellte der damalige Bundespostminister Kurt Gscheidle in einem Porträt über die Bundespost fest, dass die Post zwar lebensnotwendig, doch für die meisten Menschen uninteressant sei. Diese Feststellung lässt sich auch auf das bisherige Interesse der Geschichtswissenschaft an diesem Thema übertragen. Viele Analysen zur Postgeschichte stammen vo...

Participatory research formats have recently gained in importance in historical research. This is particularly reflected in the increase in historically oriented citizen science projects. However, this development has so far received little attention in the relevant research literature and, especially in the Germanspeaking world, remains at best a...

Abstract The issuing of stamps is a protracted process influenced by many interests. Despite their value as sources for the history of everyday life and thought and as a barometer of what can be said, dealing with philatelic sources is still mostly a field for extramural research. In the present article, the complexity and political relevance of em...

The contributions in this volume examine cinema in the GDR from an everyday historical perspective, while investigating the role of the cinema for the people of the GDR. They focus on the cinema as a place of leisure and work in the sphere of tension between cinematic entertainment and political instrumentalisation. With contributions by apl. Prof....

Digital literacy and technology education has gained much relevance in humanities and heritage related disciplines during the recent decades. Against this background, the purpose of this article is to examine the current state of educational programs in digital cultural heritage and related disciplines primarily in Europe with supplemental informat...

Our Citizen Science platform aims to involve interested contemporary witnesses in order to gather information and sources about an everyday history of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) that are difficult to obtain using classical historical methods of research. The following article shows the discrepancy between project expectations and experien...

This article presents a project at the University of Erfurt to establish a Citizen Science platform on the issue of GDR Cinema History. Public interest assumed for this topic will be activated by both analogous and digital communication , contributions collected online and integrated into the research process.

The geographic expansion of the world in the 19th century is usually associated with celebrated explorers such as Alexander von Humboldt, Heinrich Barth or Gerhard Rohlfs who disclosed their geographic findings and discoveries through various publishing houses. Little is known, however, that the wide range of products from the geographic publishing...

Das Designfeld ist im Umbruch. Sowohl die Theorie als auch die Praxis suchen ›neue‹ Betätigungsfelder und streben nach einem anderen Selbstverständnis. Man will politisches Design machen, will als Akteur gesellschaftlicher Veränderungen wahrgenommen werden, zuweilen wohl gar die neue Leitdisziplin des urbanen Wandels werden. Unter einem erweiterten...

Werbestrategien befinden sich in der letzten Zeit in einer neuen Dimension: Das Internet und die sogenannten »sozialen Medien« haben die traditionellen Kommunikationsstrukturen der Konsumgesellschaft revolutioniert. Und ebenso die Kritik daran provoziert - wesentlich durch das Protestphänomen des Adbustings. Der Band geht dem nach, indem aus der Pr...

The Perthes collection represents the survival of one of the few completely preserved archives of a cartographic publisher. This publishing house significantly contributed to the scientific exploration, mapping, and surveying of the earth in the 19th and early 20th centuries. In addition to the maps as end products, the collection contains unique a...

Die Publikation "Citizen Science für alle“ ist eine praktische Ressource für Initiierende, Beteiligte und Interessierte an Citizen Science-Projekten. Die Handreichung liefert praktische Tipps für die Planung und Umsetzung von Citizen Science- Projekten und schafft einen Überblick zur Citizen Science-Praxis in Deutschland. Welche Punkte muss ich be...