Ebook: Digital memory and the archive
Author: Parikka Jussi, Ernst Wolfgang
- Tags: Mass media -- Philosophy. Digital media -- Social aspects. Mass media -- Archival resources. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies. ART -- Film & Video.
- Series: Electronic mediations 39
- Year: 2013
- Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
- City: Minneapolis, MN
- Language: English
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In the popular imagination, archives are remote, largely obsolete institutions: either antiquated, inevitably dusty libraries or sinister repositories of personal secrets maintained by police states. Yet the archive is now a ubiquitous feature of digital life. Rather than being deleted, e-mails and other computer files are archived. Media software and cloud storage allow for the instantaneous cataloging and Read more...
Abstract: In the popular imagination, archives are remote, largely obsolete institutions: either antiquated, inevitably dusty libraries or sinister repositories of personal secrets maintained by police states. Yet the archive is now a ubiquitous feature of digital life. Rather than being deleted, e-mails and other computer files are archived. Media software and cloud storage allow for the instantaneous cataloging and preservation of data, from music, photographs, and videos to personal information gathered by social media sites.In this digital landscape, the archival-oriented media theori