Digital Community Engagement: Partnering Communities with the Academy
University of Cincinnati Press
Edited with Rebecca Wingo and Paul Schadewald, our volume brings together cutting-edge campus-community partnerships with a focus on digital projects. Through a series of case studies authored by academics and their community partners, we explore models for digital community engagement that leverages new media through reciprocal partnerships. The contributions to the volume stand at the crossroads of digital humanities, public history, and community engagement, drawing ideas, methods, and practices from various disciplines to inform our public partnerships. By highlighting these projects we hope to provide other institutions, cultural heritage organizations, universities, and communities models for successful engagement.
Winner of the 2021 National Council on Public History (NCPH) Book Award.
Reviews
“Taken together, this collection is a welcome addition to the field of community engagement and one which is designed to stimulate discussion.”
— Ann-Marie Foster, Public History Review
“With its easy prose and critical lens, DiCE will be a welcome addition to public history courses and valuable to those wishing to create similar partnerships.”
— Megan Smeznik, Reviews in Digital Humanities
“Taken as a whole, the volume's essays constitute a vital contribution to the field. Wingo, Heppler, and Shadewald's volume might have just provided us with a road map to navigate these times.”
— Christopher D. Cantwell, The Public Historian