Archive and database as metaphor: Theorizing the Historical Record
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Manoff, Marlene
Date Issued
June 27, 2012
Abstract
Digital media increase the visibility and presence of the past while also reshaping our
sense of history. We have extraordinary access to digital versions of books, journals, film, television,
music, art and popular culture from earlier eras. New theoretical formulations of database and
archive provide ways to think creatively about these changes to the cultural and historical record.
This essay explores the ways in which the current digital environment can be theorized in terms
of, what I call, its archival effects.
Subjects
archival theory, archival metaphor, digital media
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