In the popular imagination, archives are remote, largely obsolete institutions: either antiquated, inevitably dusty libraries or sinister repositories of personal secrets maintained by police states. Yet the archive is now a ubiquitous feature of digital life. Rather than being deleted, e-mails and
Digital Memory and the Archive
β Scribed by Wolfgang Ernst
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Category
- Library
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