Main entry:

Lison, Andrew, author.

Title & Author:

Archives / Andrew Lison, Marcell Mars, Tomislav Medak, and Rick Prelinger.

Publication:

Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press ; Lüneberg, Germany : Meson Press, 2019.

Description:

1 online resource (xxiii, 68 pages)

Series:

In search of media

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction. Contesting "The archive, " archives, and thanatarchy / Andrew Lison -- Archives of incovenience / Rick Prelinger -- System of a takedown : control and de-commodifcation in the circuits of academic publishing / Marcell Mars and Tomislav Medak.

Summary:

"Archives have become a nexus in the wake of the digital turn. Electronic files, search engines, video sites, and media player libraries make the concepts of "archival" and "retrieval" practically synonymous with the experience of interconnected computing. Archives today are the center of much attention but few agendas. Can archives inform the redistribution of power and resources when the concept of the public library as an institution makes knowledge and culture accessible to all members of society regardless of social or economic status? This book sets out to show that archives need our active support and continuing engagement. This volume offers three distinct perspectives on the present status of archives that are at once in disagreement and solidarity with each other, from contributors whose backgrounds cut across the theory-practice divide. Is the increasing digital storage of knowledge pushing us toward a turning point in its democratization? Can archives fulfill their paradoxical potential as utopian sites in which the analog and the digital, the past and future, and remembrance and forgetting commingle? Is there a downside to the present-day impulse toward total preservation?"--Project Muse website, viewed March 25, 2021.

Resources:
ProQuest Ebook Central
Project MUSE
EBSCOhost
JSTOR
Kortext

ISBN:

9783957961501 (PDF)
3957961505 (PDF)
1452961840 (electronic book)
9781452961859 (electronic book)
1452961859 (electronic book)
9781452961842 (electronic bk.)
(paperback alkaline paper)
9781517908065

Subject:

Archives Philosophy.
Archives Political aspects.
Archival materials.
Digital libraries.
Libraries, Digital
Archives Philosophie.
Archives Aspect politique.
Documents d'archives.
Bibliothèques virtuelles.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies

Added entries:

Mars, Marcell, author.
Medak, Tomislav, author.
Prelinger, Rick, 1953- author.
In search of media.