The Politics of Mass Digitization

The Politics of Mass Digitization
Author :
Publisher : MIT Press
Total Pages : 212
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780262039017
ISBN-13 : 026203901X
Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Politics of Mass Digitization by : Nanna Bonde Thylstrup

Download or read book The Politics of Mass Digitization written by Nanna Bonde Thylstrup and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


The Politics of Mass Digitization Related Books

The Politics of Mass Digitization
Language: en
Pages: 212
Authors: Nanna Bonde Thylstrup
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-01-29 - Publisher: MIT Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A new examination of mass digitization as an emerging sociopolitical and sociotechnical phenomenon that alters the politics of cultural memory. Today, all of us
The Politics of Mass Digitization
Language: en
Pages: 212
Authors: Nanna Bonde Thylstrup
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-01-29 - Publisher: MIT Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A new examination of mass digitization as an emerging sociopolitical and sociotechnical phenomenon that alters the politics of cultural memory. Today, all of us
The Politics of Mass Digitization
Language: en
Pages: 302
Authors:
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The Politics of Mass Digitization
Language: en
Pages: 216
Authors: Nanna Bonde Thylstrup
Categories: Archival materials
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A new examination of mass digitization as an emerging sociopolitical and sociotechnical phenomenon that alters the politics of cultural memory. Today, all of us
Copyright and Mass Digitization
Language: en
Pages: 200
Authors: Maurizio Borghi
Categories: Law
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-03-21 - Publisher: OUP Oxford

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In an age of mass digitization, does copyright law need to change, and if so, how? This thought-provoking book considers whether the purposes, activities and ef