Large questions find their answers in small places

• Posted on 22 novembre 2011
• in communication
• by Roxana

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Microhistory is the intensive historical investigation of a well defined smaller unit of research (most often a single event, the community of a village, a family or a person). In its ambition, however, microhistory can be distinguished from a simple case study insofar microhistory aspires to “search for answers to large questions in small places”, to use the definition given by Charles Joyner.
If we consider facebook profiles such small places, I wonder…whom of us is being studied right now?

Étiquettes : facebook surveillance, large questions, microhistory