This book examines the use and re-use of digital archives in a unique manner, by combining theoretical and practical approaches to the contemporary digital archive. The book brings together a range of writers - specialising in media and cultural studies, contemporary art and art history, digital and networked culture, library and museum studies - to explore the cultural impact of digital archives. Several of the essays describe the process of constructing a digital archive as a specific case study - in digitising a physical archive and designing a searchable digital database as the core of the digital archive. Other chapters explore the cultural significance of digital archives in more general theoretical terms. These considerations include: the specific properties of the digital archive; its similarities and differences to the traditional paper-based archive; the ethical decisions made in the design of an archive; and the potential for creative re-use of online archived materials.
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Verlagsgruppe
Springer International Publishing
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Illustrationen
15
15 s/w Abbildungen
XI, 167 p. 15 illus.
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Höhe: 216 mm
Breite: 153 mm
Dicke: 15 mm
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ISBN-13
978-3-030-79522-1 (9783030795221)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-79523-8
Schweitzer Klassifikation
John Potts is Professor of Media at Macquarie University, Sydney. He is the author of A History of Charisma, The New Time and Space, Ideas in Time, Radio in Australia; and the editor of several books including The Future of Writing.
