Digital Community Engagement

Partnering Communities with the Academy

Wingo Rebecca S., Heppler Jason, Schadewald Paul

"Digital Community Engagement" 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, this collection explores models for digital community engagement that leverage new media through reciprocal partnerships. The contributions to this volume stand at the crossroads of digital humanities, public history, and community engagement.

About the Author

Rebecca Wingo is assistant professor of history and the Director of Public History at the University of Cincinnati. She is the author of "Homesteading the Plains: Towards a New History".

Jason Heppler is assistant professor and Digital Engagement Librarian at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, where he leads initiatives in community engagement and digital humanities.

Paul Schadewald is the Associate Director of the Civic Engagement Center in the Institute for Global Citizenship at Macalester College in St. Paul, MN.

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