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Historic Newspapers in the Digital Age - Search All About It! (Hardcover)
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Historic Newspapers in the Digital Age - Search All About It! (Hardcover)
Series: Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities
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In recent years, cultural institutions and commercial providers
have created extensive digitised newspaper collections. This book
asks the timely question: what can the large-scale digitisation of
newspapers tell us about the wider cultural phenomenon of mass
digitisation? The unique form and materiality of newspapers, and
their grounding in a particular time and place, provide challenges
for researchers and digital resource creators alike. At the same
time, the wider context in which digitisation of cultural heritage
occurs shapes the impact of digital resources in ways which fall
short of the grand ambitions of the wider theoretical discourse.
Drawing on case studies from leading digitised newspaper
collections, the book aims to provide a bridge between the theory
and practice of how these digitised collections are being used.
Beginning with an exploration of the hyperbolic nature of
technological discourses, the author explores how web interfaces,
funding models and the realities of contemporary user behaviour
contrast with the hyperbolic discourse surrounding mass
digitisation. This book will be of particular interest to those who
want to investigate how user studies can inform our understanding
of technological phenomena, including digital resource creators,
information professionals, students and researchers in
universities, libraries, museums and archives.
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