Collecting in the Twenty-First Century (eBook, PDF)

From Museums to the Web
Redaktion: Endres, Johannes; Zeller, Christoph

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

An interdisciplinary volume of essays identifying the impact of technology on the age-old cultural practice of collecting as well as the opportunities and pitfalls of collecting in the digital era.

Seminal to the rise of human cultures, the practice of collecting is an expression of individual and societal self-understanding. Through collections, cultures learn and grow. The introduction of digital technology has accelerated this process and at the same time changed how, what, and why we collect. Ever-expanding storage capacities and the accumulation of unprecedented amounts of data are part of a highly complex information economy in which collecting has become even more important for the formation of the past, present, and future. Museums, libraries, and archives have adapted to the requirements of a digital environment, as has anyone who browses the internet and stores information on hard drives or cloud servers. In turn, companies follow the digital footprint we leave behind. Today, collecting includes not only physical objects but also the binary code that allows for their virtual representation on screen. Collecting in the Twenty-First Century identifies the impact of technology, both new and old, on the cultural practice of collecting as well as the challenges and opportunities of collecting in the digital era. Scholars from German Studies, Media Studies, Museum Studies, Sound Studies, Information Technology, and Art History as well as librarians and preservationists offer insights into the most recent developments in collecting practices.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wits University Press
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781800103382
• Artikelnr.: 63918204

Autorenporträt

Edited by Johannes Endres and Christoph Zeller

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Collecting in the Digital Age - Christoph Zeller 1:
Collecting: Defining the Subject - Johannes Endres PART I. Spaces of
Collecting 2: Collector as Curator: Collecting in the Post-Internet Age -
Boris Groys 3: Should Libraries Still Be Charged with Collecting in a
Digital Environment? - Michael Knoche 4: Museums and Collecting as/and
Media in the Digital Age - Peter M. McIsaac PART II. Recollection 5:
Quality Storage: Collecting as a Technique of Reading - Nikolaus Wegmann 6:
Phenomenology of Memory in an Age of Big Data - Clifford B. Anderson 7:
Collecting the Cultural Memory of Palmyra - Erin L. Thompson 8:
Conservation in the Digital Age - Jessica Walthew PART III. Virtuality 9:
Music and the Limits of Collectibility - Rolf J. Goebel 10: Cat Art and
Climate Change: Collecting in the Data Anthropocene - Edward Dawson PART
IV. Economics 11: Doomed to Collect: Dataveillance as Inner Logic of the
Internet - Roberto Simanowski 12: Data Collection in the Age of
Surveillance Capitalism - Douglas C. Schmidt Notes on the Contributors
Index