On 12 January 2013 18:11, Venkata R Suri <ratandeep.suri@gmail.com> wrote:

I am currently studying how historians and museums incorporate social media into historical research. I wanted to reach out to the community to help me identify some social history projects that have a strong component social media component in it. I also wanted to get in touch with scholars who are working on such projects.

The best source for museums and digital/social media projects is the site and community around the Museums and the Web conference, including 'Best of the Web' nominations (2012-1997) http://www.museumsandtheweb.com/best and conference proceedings: 2012 http://www.museumsandtheweb.com/mw2012/sessions 2011 http://www.museumsandtheweb.com/mw2011/sessions 2010-1987 http://www.museumsandtheweb.com/researchForum You might also look at the Digital Humanities Awards http://dhawards.org/(nominations closed on the 11th so presumably they'll publish the list of nominees soon); the archives of the Public History Review http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/phrj/issue/archive and the (US) National Council on Public History Awards http://ncph.org/cms/awards/public-history-project-award/ The Digital Humanities conference also includes some social history and crowdsourcing projects e.g. DH2012 http://www.dh2012.uni-hamburg.de/conference/programme/abstracts/ as did the first Digital Humanities Australasia conference http://aa-dh.org/program/ You could look for people tweeting with #dhist, #musetech (and variations) or look through the archives of the Museums Computer Group http://bit.ly/mcglist or the Museum Computer Network http://www.mcn.edu/mcn-l lists. Cheers, Mia -------------------------------------------- PhD Candidate, Digital Humanities, Department of History, Open University http://openobjects.org.uk/ http://twitter.com/mia_out