Digital literacy : What every graduate student needs to know

Abstract

What should the well-trained graduate student know about digital history when they convocate? The “digital turn” has affected all aspects of history including how we research, write, teach, communicate and publish and its impact is only going to grow. Bad enough that the current professoriate flounder when pushed passed the basic digital skills, but worse that we should handicap the next generation. Recognizing that today’s technologies are only going to be the foundation for tomorrow’s, anyone who does not have the fundamentals today will find themselves cut off from a growing, dynamic and increasingly important part of the profession and it will be increasingly difficult to catch up.What then are the digital skills every history graduate student needs to know?