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Visualizing Historical Networks, http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~histecon/visualizing/index.html; see also, for example, Northeastern University's NULAB for Texts, Maps, and Networks, http://www.northeastern.edu/nulab; “Digital Yoknapatawpha,” http://www.iath.virginia.edu/faulkner.html.

“A Conversation with Digital Historians,” Southern Spaces, January 31, 2012, http://southernspaces.org.

Robert K. Nelson, “Mining the Dispatch,” http://dsl.richmond.edu/dispatch. Still larger-scale digital history projects are going on at George Mason University's Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, and the University of Virginia's Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities.

The National Digital Newspaper Program is a collaboration between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities, http://www.loc.gov/ndnp. For a list of award recipients, see http://www.loc.gov/ndnp/awards.

Elizabeth Eisenstein, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communication and Cultural Transformations in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979); Jean Folkerts, Dwight L. Teeter Jr., and Edward Caudill, Voices of a Nation: A History of Mass Media in the United States (Boston: Pearson/Allyn & Bacon, 2009).

Julia Guarneri, “Making Metropolitans: Newspapers and the Urbanization of Americans, 1880–1930” (PhD diss., Yale University, 2013). For this work, the author won honorable mention in the 2013 Margaret A. Blanchard Doctoral Dissertation Award competition. Rachel Plotnick, “Touch of a Button: Long-Distance Transmission, Communication, and Control at World's Fairs,” Critical Studies in Media Communication 30, no. 1 (March 2013): 52–68. Technology endures as a site of study, as well as a point of debate among scholars who argue whether technology drives social, cultural, political, and economic change, or the converse. See, for example, Adrian Johns, The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998); Daniel Chandler, “Technological or Media Determinism,” http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/tecdet/tdet13.html; Martin Hirst, “One Tweet Does Not a Revolution Make: Technological Determinism, Media, and Social Change,” Global Media Journal (Australia edition) 6, no. 2 (2012): 1–11.

Victoria Smith Ekstrand, “The Presentist Media Landscape and the Practice of Doing History,” American Journalism 30, no. 4 (2013): 441–449.

Ibid., 443. Ekstrand's essay was a response to Douglas Rushkoff, Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now (New York: Penguin, 2013).