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  Acknowledgments    vii

  Introduction: The Renaissance   1
        Orville Vernon Burton

  PART 1: THE DIGITAL REVOLUTION

1. Technological Revolutions I Have Known   19
        Edward L. Ayers

2. Rewiring the History and Social Studies Classroom: Needs, Frameworks, Dangers, and Proposals   29
        Randy Bass and Roy Rosenzweig

  PART 2: COMPUTING AND NEW ACCESS TO SOCIAL SCIENCE DATA: INNOVATIONS IN APPLICATIONS

3. Validity of Web-Based Surveys: Explorations with Data from 2,382 Teenagers   51
        William Sims Bainbridge

4. Computer Environments for Content Analysis: Reconceptualizing the Roles of Humans and Computers   67
        William Evans

  PART 3: COMPUTERS, SOCIAL SCIENCE, HUMANITIES, AND THE IMPACT OF NEW SOCIAL TERRAIN

5. Electronic Texts in the Historical Profession: Perspectives from Across the Scholarly Spectrum   87
        Wendy Plotkin

6. Social Activism through Computer Networks   124
        Daniel J. Myers

  PART 4: PHILOSOPHICAL AND ETHICAL CONCERNS OF THE CULTURE OF COMPUTING
7. Creating Cybertrust: Illustrations and Guidelines   141
        H. Jeanie Taylor and Cheris Kramarae

8. Electronic Networks for International Research Collaboration: Implications for Intellectual Property Protection in the Early Twenty-First Century    159
        Carole Ganz-Brown

  Contributors    183

  Index    187

  ADDENDUM: EXCLUSIVE TO THE ONLINE EDITION

  Instruments of Construction and Critique; or, Electronic Empowerment within an Emergent Curriculum
        Richard Gale

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