My dear colleague and friend Christian Heuer originally wanted to write a comment on my entry . This has become so good that it deserves its own theme. Chris Heuer is now regularly post on this blog. Christian, welcome!
THINK - published utopian!
Christian Heuer
I think that here is not about questioning the digitization is in itself, but rather the defensive behavior of traditional cultural institutions and people in relation to the new. Here the fear of loss of power and identity and the apparent abandonment painstakingly achieved through knowledge-authority-control a central role. always focused on media technology wegscheider "apocalyptic" and "integrated" over (so already Umberto Eco 1987). today just "digital natives" vs. "digital immigrants". the internet as a communication medium, and the digitalization and networking of knowledge in the net, raises the classic division of labor between producers and consumers and thus the technical differentiation between sender and receiver. ultimately, however, it experienced the power relationship between gate-keeper and recipient a fundamental transformation. already in the twenty years from the cultural theorist Walter Benjamin calls for the "expropriation of the media apparatus by the masses" it has never been as close as today. the traditional analog media to be involved in digital media contexts, whose contents can complement, altered, erased and rewritten. the occurring phases of the inevitable anxiety that a "generation change" (giesecke michael) are associated with the detachment phenomena, . Accompany the fear of digitization and hold on to the "myth of the book culture" (Giesecke 2002), such as the fear of "abuse of sources" in the digital media group, has thus reasons for me not least economic power. it is about this question of holding and its interpretive to that of the liquefied traditions (see on this than for the uwe items of jochum: copyright without quite as state and bureaucracy by means of open expropriate access researchers in.. Lettre International 87 (2009), p. 7-12).
that the discipline of history teaching is subject to the same fears, is already clear when one considers the recent work of the historical learning in virtual space by reading that are part of a media and cultural pessimism pervaded duktus that you are not on the lack of digital networking of history teaching publications surprise. Or to put it more technical nature: the most geschichtsdidaktikerInnen lack the generic skills, or the lack of media access to the generic expectations of each. the internet is just not a book, and would also be none at all!
but now lead to the field that there has been no teaching of history are working in digital form, as Becker has done in his contribution, go to the "reality" by most, but is still controversy as welcome news. but he who bitteschön has interest because a form of history teaching in non-digital publications? the sales figures of all history teaching journals go back and also be relevant monographs and compilations, but fell only marginally and only in some of the perceived own guild. I would still consider me as a publisher too, why I should not even offer these products as an ebook.
here would offer course content digitization chance or rather the adaptation of scientific publications to the new reading habits of a large. publish in the web 2.0 means but do not make available to provide content in digital form-of, but Rather, new formats are, platforms and media alliances developed and created, the contents differently - just in grid-like structure and in open access - transport.
but that is no longer a question of technology. not because last must for thinking and change very well read and habits that take time and, above all people that face these new challenges and first of all concepts and possibilities for design and test, "the machine is us!" (michael wesh ). It is important to make the digitization and not about to stop them or with their protests "apell heidelberger" to meet such as the. the digitization and the Internet are not useful tools and media in the classic. the digitization spins networks, perform in which education and subjectification (see the recently released study by Birgit Richard among others. flickering youth - noisy images Internet culture in web 2.0 bielefeld 2010.) and in which scientific publishing be altered must if we continue with the scientific concepts of public, would define communication and pluralistic competitive, "what is lacking at the moment is simply the obliquity. do not be so realistic, utopian thinking and living, not political or techno. what we need now are motions, we have enough technology. "(Geert Lovink). Which is nothing more to add except the appeal: THINK!
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