A Contribution to the Political Economy of Personal Archives
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Compromised Data: From Social Media to Big Data. ed. / Greg Elmer; Ganaele Langlois; Joanna Redden. 1. ed. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. p. 226-246.
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TY - CHAP
T1 - A Contribution to the Political Economy of Personal Archives
AU - Hui, Yuk
PY - 2015/7
Y1 - 2015/7
N2 - One of the still unfolding impacts of the computer age is that everyone now must be their own digital archivist. With digitization, archives are now everywhere, from online libraries to personal timelines on social media. These days, the archive is less of a critical concept and more of a socioeconomic category. Indeed, the issues that surround the archive concern techniques of digitization and modes of access in an environment dominated by a few corporate players such as Google. In this new reality of the archive, the relation between the digital and the archive is often presupposed: the digital serves the purpose of archiving, from management to access. In this chapter, I want to bring this presupposition into question. Let us first ask: What really is an archive after digitization? The way we talk about digitization and archives today assumes a concept of the archive comparable to...
AB - One of the still unfolding impacts of the computer age is that everyone now must be their own digital archivist. With digitization, archives are now everywhere, from online libraries to personal timelines on social media. These days, the archive is less of a critical concept and more of a socioeconomic category. Indeed, the issues that surround the archive concern techniques of digitization and modes of access in an environment dominated by a few corporate players such as Google. In this new reality of the archive, the relation between the digital and the archive is often presupposed: the digital serves the purpose of archiving, from management to access. In this chapter, I want to bring this presupposition into question. Let us first ask: What really is an archive after digitization? The way we talk about digitization and archives today assumes a concept of the archive comparable to...
KW - Digital media
UR - http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/compromised-data-9781501306525/
U2 - 10.5040/9781501306549.0017
DO - 10.5040/9781501306549.0017
M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies
SN - 978-1-5013-0651-8
SN - 978-1-5013-0650-1
SP - 226
EP - 246
BT - Compromised Data
A2 - Elmer, Greg
A2 - Langlois, Ganaele
A2 - Redden, Joanna
PB - Bloomsbury Academic
CY - London
ER -