The following excerpt is from the FASS Newsletter article “Professor Shawn Graham Participates in Groundbreaking Public Archeology Twitter Conference“. The full text is available online.
This spring, Twitter hosted the first-ever global conference in Public Archeology. The social media conference featured fifty presenters from seven different countries over the course of a single day. The resonance of this unique venture was significant, reaching people worldwide through tweeted images, video clips, and so on, to convey arguments concerning the discipline of public and digital archaeology. All this and no one had to pay for flights or entry fees! Specific topics broached included, photogrammetry, museums, looting, public engagement, art, politics all using the hashtag #PATC.
At the forefront of this groundbreaking academic occasion was Department of History’s own Professor Shawn Graham.