Digital Platforms and Public History: Insights from r/AskHistorians
Howlett, Daniel (1,4); Gilbert, Sarah (2); Baer-Tsarfati, Lisa (3); Kelly, Mills (1,4)
1: George Mason University, United States of America; 2: The Citizens and Technology Lab at Cornell University, United States of America; 3: University of Guelph, Canada; 4: Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, United States of America
AskHistorians is a text-based Q&A community with 1.9 million subscribers on the social media platform Reddit. This panel features three of its moderators to discuss how content moderation creates a trusted community, how digital spaces improve accessibility to scholarly dialogue, and how subscribers use the forum to contextualize current events.