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I think this journal’s discussion of hashtags impact on archiving and movements is important to consider for archiving purposes. It not only directly mentions archiving, but also how these hashtags start movements that need archiving work to be done. I liked how it considered a new form of visuality and how that impacts community archiving. I believe this article is different than other data in the archive and considers how social media is shaping human experience and movements. I think this is unique because older archiving would never consider how hashtags can influence the field.
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Title
#MeToo in Sweden: Museum Collections, Digital Archiving and Hashtag Visuality
Subject
Digital Humanities
Description
Uimonen discusses the Nordic Museum in Stockholm’s #MeToo collection and the public submissions to the collection. It also “analyses the museum’s rationale for collecting what is considered to be difficult cultural heritage.” Unlike most archives, it does not contain images. The article proposes a new visuality in digital archiving: “hashtag visuality.” The article claims it is visual representation of social media. The author argues that the amount this visuality for the hashtag occurs in Sweden is a statement regarding sexism and violence in a country that is believed to be feminist. The author states hashtag visuality has made an impact on how this topic is discussed and acted upon and that it has become a movement.
I think this journal’s discussion of hashtags impact on archiving and movements is important to consider for archiving purposes. It not only directly mentions archiving, but also how these hashtags start movements that need archiving work to be done. I liked how it considered a new form of visuality and how that impacts community archiving. I believe this article is different than other data in the archive and considers how social media is shaping human experience and movements. I think this is unique because older archiving would never consider how hashtags can influence the field.
Creator
Uimonen, Paula
Publisher
Informa UK Limited
Date
2019-07-17
Contributor
Alexis Cosio
Type
Online Journal
Identifier
ISSN 0014-1844
Bibliographic Citation
Uimonen, Paula. "# MeToo in Sweden: Museum Collections, Digital Archiving and Hashtag Visuality." Ethnos (2019): 1-18.
Archives, Documentation, and Institutions of Social Memory: Essays from the Sawyer Seminar
Subject
Archives
Description
The Advanced Studies Center of the International Institute of the University of Michigan held a year-long Sawyer Seminar from 2000-2001 to investigate the complicated relationships between archives, forms of documentation, and societies. The program had 100 presentations over 28 sessions with representation from 15 different countries. The focus of the seminar was the role of archives in the production of knowledge. The book is divided into five sections. The first section deals with archives themselves. How does one define an archive? The second section looks at how archives are used in the production of knowledge. The third section is about social memory. These articles explore how archives create knowledge about broader social processes and activities that can be used to explore the past, such as how archives can deliberately limit, shape, or structure certain kinds of social understanding. The fourth section examines archives and political cultures, specifically Canada, the Caribbean, Western Europe, African, and European Colonial Archives. Essays cover the challenge of recovering “memory” in areas of colonialism and postcolonialism, revolutionary events, and evolving stable states. In contrast to section four, the last section covers archives and social understanding in states undergoing rapid transition, such as China, Postwar Japan, Postwar Greece, Russia, Ukraine, and the Balkins. The essays examine the relationship between state archives and governments, and they look at how politics affects archives.
Creator
Blouin Jr., Francis
Rosenberg, William R
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Date
2006
Contributor
Polk, Victoria
Rights
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license
Type
Book
Identifier
ISBN-13: 978-0472032709
ISBN-10: 0472032704
Bibliographic Citation
Blouin, Jr, Francis X., and William G. Rosenberg, eds. Archives, Documentation, and Institutions of Social Memory: Essays from the Sawyer Seminar. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006.
Between Archive and Participation: Public Memory in a Digital Age
Subject
Collective memory
Description
Haskins examines the effects of the Internet on the memory work of archives and the informal, vernacular style of the broad public. Examples of the vernacular style of memory work include the spontaneous display of mementos at memorials or sites of mourning, and uploading personal stories and photographs to the Internet via social media. Traditionally, archival memory stores and orders material traces of the past without the presence or engagement by the public. However, the Internet continually archives the transmission of media and exponentially, the private opinions, ephemera, and idiosyncratic methods of organization of its contributors. The diversity of public opinion and the sharing of content afford both potentially beneficial and destructive consequences. Participation in memory work by a greater cross-section of society that is unaffected by more conservative, institutional restraints supports the values and beliefs of a democratic society. Conversely, that same diversity fosters insularity, given the widely fragmented content and the commercial profit gained by nurturing individualistic self-expression. Haskins proposes, through her examination of the 9-11 digital archive a balanced approach to centering memory work by cultural heritage institutions with guidelines for public participation and fostering a comprehensive view of history.
Creator
Haskins, Katerina
Publisher
Rhetoric Society Quarterly
Date
2007
Contributor
Polk, Victoria
Rights
The Rhetoric Society of America
Type
Journal Article
Bibliographic Citation
Haskins, Katerina. "Between Archive and Participation: Public Memory in a Digital Age." Rhetoric Society Quarterly v. 37, n.4. (2007): 401-422.
Instructional Method
Haskins illuminates one of the most critical challenges facing builders of digital archives: balancing the time-tested standards and methods for storing and providing access to a comprehensive representation of cultural knowledge against the demands for digitization and greater public participation. In this article, she alerts the reader to the potential loss of historical consciousness and a “self-congratulatory amnesia” resulting from the Internet style of unbridled public expression. Archives should facilitate broad perspectives and a sense of the larger body politic. As digital archivists, we provide the contextual information, tools, and interface design that may either enhance or detract from the idea of cultural memory.
Between Archive and Participation: Public Memory in a Digital Age
Subject
Collective Memory
Description
In sizing up the notion of public memory, rhetoricians would be remiss not to consider the increasing influence of new media on today's remembrance culture. This article addresses memorial functions of the internet in light of recent scholarly debates about virtues and drawbacks of modern 'archival memory' as well as the paradoxical link between the contemporary public obsession with memory and the acceleration of amnesia. To explore the strengths and limitations of the internet as a vehicle of collecting, preserving, and displaying traces of the past, the article examines The September 11 Digital Archive, a comprehensive online effort to document public involvement in recording and commemorating the tragedy of 11 September, 2001.
Creator
Haskins, Ekaterina
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Group
Date
2007
Contributor
Vieira, Lisa
Type
Journal Article
Bibliographic Citation
Haskins, Ekaterina. "Between Archive and Participation: Public Memory in a Digital Age." Rhetoric Society Quarterly (2007): 401. JSTOR Journals, EBSCOhost.
Beyond the Encyclopedia: Collective Memories in
Wikipedia
Subject
Collective memory
Description
Michela Ferron and Paolo Massa employ a quantitative study of Wikipedia as a digital archive in order to show how one can view memory as an active process. The authors begin with a discussion of Web 2.0 as public, private, and modifiable, but unable to be completely erased. They further assert that backups of the Internet, particularly in the case of Wikipedia, allowed them to conduct longitudinal studies about data. Ferron and Massa used an XML file to show the revision history of all pages of the English Wikipedia on September 16, 2010, arguing that a revision spike occurs near the anniversary of a traumatic event. They found that pages relating the September 11, 2001 attacks received an average of 10, 701 edits per day during the anniversary, and only 4,619 edits per day otherwise. Ferron and Massa compared this data to Wikipedia pages for non-traumatic events, like Woodstock and Apollo 11, which did not receive as much attention.
Creator
Ferron, Michela
Massa, Paolo
Date
2013
Contributor
Sara Raffel
Type
Journal
Bibliographic Citation
Ferron, M., and P. Massa. "Beyond the Encyclopedia: Collective Memories in Wikipedia." Memory Studies 7.1 (2013): 22-45. Web.
Catching Stories: A Practical Guide to Oral History
Subject
Personal archives
Description
A good overview regarding the practical aspects of collecting oral histories. The authors state that anyone with the time, resources, and interest can take part in the recording of oral history. There are no age barriers or educational barriers when conducting interviews and the advancement in technology has made digital recorders and camcorders affordable and accessible. Community historians tend to engage in topics that they can relate to and have some bearing on their own lives and background. The authors also explore the challenges dealing with family history as well as the sensitivity needed when interviewing a subject for the first time. The authors' mission is to enable more people to practice history.
Creator
Deblasio, Debra M. Charles, F. Ganzert, et al..
Publisher
Swallow Press, Athens. Ohio
Date
2009
Contributor
Robert Clarke
Type
Book
Identifier
ISBN:978-0-804-1117-74
Bibliographic Citation
DeBlasio, Donna Marie. Catching Stories: A Practical Guide to Oral History. Athens, OH: Swallow, 2009. Print.
Conserving for the Future by Archiving Our Past: A Story about Technology and Digitization Informed
Subject
Collective Memory
Description
“Conserving for the Future by Archiving Our Past; A Story about Technology and Digitization Informed by a Vintage Paperback Book Collection” written by and released by Education Resources Information Center (ERIC). This 16 page pamphlet discusses the period of change that happens when taking information and digitizing it for digital archiving. Many pieces of informational texts just talk about the before and after, but do not go into how this impacts society once everything is said and done and through the process of taking such classic works and placing them for digital works for the world to see.It discusses what happens to those bits and pieces of information once they have gone through the processes and are uploaded in their designated servers. It mostly focuses on the negative impacts that this may have, stating that the original “essence” of such works can be lost when transformed into a digital version. It takes a very informational topic and creates a sense of empathy for our previous works. This would be a very valuable addition to the archive because it brings in a very neglected point of view that is not considered much in the modern day and age of technology. Students need to be informed of the potential losses that may come when doing a action that may be simplifying our lives, but also losing the effects of nostalgia that come within such works. The true purpose of these works are questioned as to being lost or misused when turned into digital versions.
Creator
ERIC
Date
2010
Contributor
Clara Pulido, Jacquelyn Curtin, Truc Duong
Identifier
ERIC_EJ913573
Bibliographic Citation
ERIC EJ913573: Conserving for the Future by Archiving Our Past; A Story about Technology and Digitization Informed by a Vintage Paperback Book Collection. ERIC, n.d.
"Our mission is simple — to help you capture, preserve, organize and enjoy your family's most valuable photos, papers, stories and mementos using archival best practices, methodologies and supplies. We know our advice and supplies are the best, because they're the same ones employed by professional archivists and museum experts from around the world."
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This example further re-enforces Post’s stance in the importance of a collaborative relationship with local artist and institutions to preserve works of art in any form. Post’s explanations make it clear that the benefits of this outweighs any reservations.
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Title
Ensuring the Legacy of Self-Taught and Local Artists: A Collaborative Framework for Preserving Artists’ Archives
Subject
Personal Archives
Description
Colin Post’s article focuses on the importance of institutions establishing a collaborative relationship with local artist. The collaboration comes from the personal archives of artists sharing their content to institutions. To ensure the long-term preservation of artists’ personal archives, institutions need to work collaboratively with artists in their local communities, offering artists the skills, resources, and support necessary to create and sustain personal archives. For this kind of collaborative relationship to succeed, institutions will need to develop new models for working with potential donors, emphasizing skill-building and support for the artist to manage his or her personal archives as critical goals, in addition to the acquisition of the material itself into institutional holdings. These institutions will provide workshops and information on how local artist can manage their personal archives. As artist manage their own archives in the best way, the institutions can be a repository for long-term community access to those artist materials should they choose to donate their work. Post uses a real-life example of an artist named Cornelio Campos who worked together with the Durham County Library.
This example further re-enforces Post’s stance in the importance of a collaborative relationship with local artist and institutions to preserve works of art in any form. Post’s explanations make it clear that the benefits of this outweighs any reservations.
Creator
Colin Post
Publisher
Art Documentation: Journal of the Art Libraries Society of North America
Date
2017 Spring
Contributor
Abbygail Dees
Bibliographic Citation
Post, Colin. "Ensuring the Legacy of Self-Taught and Local Artists: A Collaborative Framework for Preserving Artists’ Archives," Art Documentation: Journal of the Art Libraries Society of North America 36, no. 1 (Spring 2017): 73-90. https://doi.org/10.1086/691373
Everyone Around You Has a Story the World Needs To Hear
Subject
Archives
Description
This TEDtalk outlines Dave Isay, the founder of StoryCorps, argument for the construction of a digital archive that aims to capture the voices, and stories of all of humanity. He argues that by the interview itself becoming the central focus of the work of StoryCorps, instead of focusing on a figure in history, the StoryCorps project aimed to create transformational experiences for participants while collecting and archiving the stories and conversations of others in the Library of Congress. StoryCorps has grown to include well over 100,000 participants, constituting the largest collection of human voices every created. In response to receiving the TED prize he was asked to come up with a brief wish for humanity: “that you will help us take everything we’ve learned through StoryCorps and bring it to the world, so that anyone, anywhere can easily record a meaningful interview with another human being which will then be archived for history.
Creator
Isay, Dave
Date
2015-03-20
Contributor
Foley, Christopher
Type
Video
Bibliographic Citation
Isay, Dave. “Everyone Around You Has a Story the World Needs To Hear.” Presentation at TED 2015, Vancouver, Canada, March 16-20, 2015. Web.