Is There a Way Back or Can the Internet Remember its Own History?
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Is There a Way Back or Can the Internet Remember its Own History? / Burkhardt, Marcus.
Digital Memories: Exploring Critical Issues. ed. / Anna Maj; Daniel Riha. Oxford : Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2010. p. 129-138 (Critical Issues).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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T1 - Is There a Way Back or Can the Internet Remember its Own History?
AU - Burkhardt, Marcus
N1 - IDP Vol. 105
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - As we shift from analogue to digital media as the predominant means toexpress ourselves and to communicate with each other, the question how weconstruct personal and cultural memory in and of cyberspace becomesincreasingly important. Considering the ephemeral nature of digitalinformation in the Internet, this paper asks how the vast amounts of digitalinformation in this global communication and information network will bememorized. The paper focuses on the Internet Archive‟s effort to preserve theentire Internet for future generations. Facing the risk a “Digital Dark Ages”,the Internet Archive was founded in 1996 by a group of visionaries aroundBrewster Kahle, at a time when years of the Webs history already have beenlost forever. Converging with the “database logic” of the new media, theInternet Archive does not form a narrative of the Internet‟s history. Drawingupon a media archaeological approach, some technological and conceptualmeans underlying the Internet Archive‟s attempt to preserve the entireInternet is discussed. The paper concludes asking what kind of memory wecan gain by accessing the Web Archive
AB - As we shift from analogue to digital media as the predominant means toexpress ourselves and to communicate with each other, the question how weconstruct personal and cultural memory in and of cyberspace becomesincreasingly important. Considering the ephemeral nature of digitalinformation in the Internet, this paper asks how the vast amounts of digitalinformation in this global communication and information network will bememorized. The paper focuses on the Internet Archive‟s effort to preserve theentire Internet for future generations. Facing the risk a “Digital Dark Ages”,the Internet Archive was founded in 1996 by a group of visionaries aroundBrewster Kahle, at a time when years of the Webs history already have beenlost forever. Converging with the “database logic” of the new media, theInternet Archive does not form a narrative of the Internet‟s history. Drawingupon a media archaeological approach, some technological and conceptualmeans underlying the Internet Archive‟s attempt to preserve the entireInternet is discussed. The paper concludes asking what kind of memory wecan gain by accessing the Web Archive
KW - Media and communication studies
KW - Digital media
KW - internet archive
KW - Digital Heritage
KW - Digital Preservation
KW - Media Archaeology
UR - https://www.inter-disciplinary.net/publishing/product/digitalmemoriesexploringcriticalissues/
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M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies
SN - 978-1-84888-004-7
T3 - Critical Issues
SP - 129
EP - 138
BT - Digital Memories
A2 - Maj, Anna
A2 - Riha, Daniel
PB - Inter-Disciplinary Press
CY - Oxford
ER -