Jesse W Torgerson
Biographic Data
| ID | 1689595 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jesse W Torgerson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jesse W |
| FAMILY NAME | Torgerson |
| SIGNATURE | TORGERSON J W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wesleyan University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Visualization, mapping, and the history of mobility in the Middle Ages
This paper reviews digital methods of scholarship for visualization and mapping, and it then shows how creative and experimental visualization can help us to study the extensive networks that lay behind human mobility, from trade to war, communication, pilgrimage, migration, and much else. In the process, the paper will familiarize historians with the key aspects of digital methods from amalgamating large quantities of data to finding patterns wi…
Historical Practice in the Era of Digital History
The current digital historical moment is an opportunity to formulate a new theory of historical practice. Our field's long-standing passive reliance on the widespread explanation of historical practice as deriving information from "primary sources" is unhelpful, incoherent, misleading, and an active inhibition to new opportunities. Our reliance on an incoherent explanation means our students are not given a precise description of our historical p…
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Visualization, mapping, and the history of mobility in the Middle Ages
This paper reviews digital methods of scholarship for visualization and mapping, and it then shows how creative and experimental visualization can help us to study the extensive networks that lay behind human mobility, from trade to war, communication, pilgrimage, migration, and much else. In the process, the paper will familiarize historians with the key aspects of digital methods from amalgamating large quantities of data to finding patterns wi…
Historical Practice in the Era of Digital History
The current digital historical moment is an opportunity to formulate a new theory of historical practice. Our field's long-standing passive reliance on the widespread explanation of historical practice as deriving information from "primary sources" is unhelpful, incoherent, misleading, and an active inhibition to new opportunities. Our reliance on an incoherent explanation means our students are not given a precise description of our historical p…
Computer Science (2 works) · Digital Humanities and Scholarship (2 works) · Ancient history (1 work) · Artificial Intelligence (1 work) · Artificial Intelligence (1 work) · Comparative historical research (1 work) · Data science (1 work) · Data Visualization and Analytics (1 work) · Discipline (1 work) · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy (1 work)