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The Politics of Mass Digitization (Hardcover)
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A new examination of mass digitization as an emerging
sociopolitical and sociotechnical phenomenon that alters the
politics of cultural memory. Today, all of us with internet
connections can access millions of digitized cultural artifacts
from the comfort of our desks. Institutions and individuals add
thousands of new cultural works to the digital sphere every day,
creating new central nexuses of knowledge. How does this affect us
politically and culturally? In this book, Nanna Bonde Thylstrup
approaches mass digitization as an emerging sociopolitical and
sociotechnical phenomenon, offering a new understanding of a
defining concept of our time. Arguing that digitization has become
a global cultural political project, Thylstrup draws on case
studies of different forms of mass digitization-including Google
Books, Europeana, and the shadow libraries Monoskop, lib.ru, and
Ubuweb-to suggest a different approach to the study of digital
cultural memory archives. She constructs a new theoretical
framework for understanding mass digitization that focuses on
notions of assemblage, infrastructure, and infrapolitics. Mass
digitization does not consist merely of neutral technical
processes, Thylstrup argues, but of distinct subpolitical processes
that give rise to new kinds of archives and new ways of interacting
with the artifacts they contain. With this book, she offers
important and timely guidance on how mass digitization alters the
politics of cultural memory to impact our relationship with the
past and with one another.
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Imprint: |
MIT Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
The Politics of Mass Digitization |
Release date: |
2019 |
Authors: |
Nanna Bonde Thylstrup
(Assistant Professor)
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 19mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
216 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-262-03901-7 |
Categories: |
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Social sciences >
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Computing & IT >
General
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LSN: |
0-262-03901-X |
Barcode: |
9780262039017 |
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