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Ola Nordmann Goes West. Using virtual worlds and on-line social networking technologies as historical research tools.

奥拉·诺德曼西行。

基本信息

批准号：
AH/I025735/1
负责人：
Andrew Linn
金额：
$ 20.41万
依托单位：
University of Sheffield
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2012
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2012 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FI025735%2F1
关键词：
Ola Nordmann Goes West.Using

项目摘要

This project involves the reconstruction of the experiences of a Norwegian peasant, the fictitious (but historically informed) Ola Nordmann, leaving his home near Voss in Western Norway in the 1880s and setting off on the long journey to a new life in the Midwest of the United States. We will be using the extensive historical materials available in the British Library in London and in Norwegian archives to create a virtual world in which he leaves his home, travels to the port of Bergen and from there to Liverpool via Hull and a train journey across England. He then travels by steamship to New York, where our story ends. The purpose of the project is to investigate whether a virtual world can recreate a historical experience more effectively for a non-academic audience than traditional written versions of history and whether it can inspire informants to engage with historical research and provide personal and local information to inform that historical account. From our privileged positions the experience of leaving the safety (and also the hardships) of rural Norway and making such a momentous journey is hard for us to imagine or to get close to, and it doesn't come across very forcefully via the received documentation of that experience. This project animates history through the character of Ola Nordmann, with whom the public can interact and on whose experiences they can comment as he travels. The comments of contributors will be used to enhance and develop this virtual world over during the 8-month central phase of the project. We also seek in particular to generate more information about the England stage of the journey, which has been less intensively studied, initially by means of our contacts at the seamen's churches in Hull and Liverpool and subsequently through the Ola Nordmann project. This England stage will be a particular focus in the virtual world. We hope that the project will be informative and entertaining for a large community of potential beneficiaries. Between the 1820s and the 1920s more than 800,000 Norwegians left for the promised land, which means that there are millions of American citizens today of Norwegian descent. Second Life, one of the most widely known examples of a virtual world, has 18 million registered users, and so we are hoping to engage with a lot of individuals with an interest in both the project's content and its design. The project also aims to make a serious contribution to historical research methodology by trialling the use of on-line social networks as a tool for carrying out oral history and for engaging with informants. The project design also allows the team to investigate the relationship between historical record and collective memory and to evaluate how the actual historical experiences of the migrants have been distorted and redefined as the memory of them has been passed down through the generations.

这个项目涉及重建一个挪威农民的经历，虚构的（但历史上知情）奥拉诺德曼，离开他的家附近沃斯在挪威西部在19世纪80年代，并掀起了漫长的旅程，在美国的中西部的新生活。我们将利用伦敦大英图书馆和挪威档案馆提供的大量历史资料来创建一个虚拟世界，在这个世界中，他离开家乡，前往卑尔根港口，从那里通过船体前往利物浦，然后乘坐火车穿越英格兰。然后，他乘轮船前往纽约，我们的故事在那里结束。该项目的目的是调查虚拟世界是否可以为非学术观众更有效地重现历史经验，而不是传统的书面历史版本，以及它是否可以激励信息提供者参与历史研究，并提供个人和本地信息，以告知历史帐户。从我们的特权位置离开挪威农村的安全（以及艰辛）并进行如此重要的旅程的经历对我们来说很难想象或接近，并且通过收到的经验文件，它并没有非常有力地遇到。这个项目通过奥拉·诺德曼的角色赋予历史以活力，公众可以与他互动，并在他旅行时评论他的经历。贡献者的评论将用于在项目的8个月中心阶段增强和开发这个虚拟世界。我们还特别寻求产生更多的信息，关于英国阶段的旅程，这一直没有深入研究，最初通过我们的接触，在海员的教堂在船体和利物浦，随后通过奥拉诺德曼项目。这个英格兰舞台将是虚拟世界中的一个特别焦点。我们希望该项目将为广大潜在受益者提供信息和娱乐。从19世纪20年代到20世纪20年代，有80多万挪威人前往应许之地，这意味着今天有数百万挪威裔美国公民。“第二人生”是虚拟世界中最广为人知的例子之一，拥有1800万注册用户，因此我们希望与许多对项目内容和设计感兴趣的人接触。该项目还旨在通过尝试使用在线社交网络作为开展口述历史和与信息提供者接触的工具，对历史研究方法做出重大贡献。项目设计还允许团队调查历史记录和集体记忆之间的关系，并评估移民的实际历史经历如何被扭曲和重新定义，因为他们的记忆已经代代相传。