• ISBN13: 9783030795221
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Communication, Mass Media and Journalism
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Publisher Imprint: Palgr Mac
• Publication Date: January 1, 2021
• Pages: 167
• Original Price: EUR 119.99
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 368 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Media Studies, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, and Library & Information Science / General

From the Back Cover
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.

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.