The complexity of “advancement”

XVII.5 September + October 2010
Page: 31
Digital Citation

Reciprocity, deep storage, and letting go


Authors:
William Odom, Richard Banks, Dave Kirk

We are seeing a vast proliferation of self-generated content on the Internet. From ever-expanding online photo archives to mundane records of everyday life through tweets, blog posts, and status updates, new forms of digital content that people find deeply meaningful and may want to pass down one day are being created. On the one hand, digital suggests possibilities of permanence and new modes of presence and expression for these kinds of materials. On the other, it brings into question what we would want to preserve and who should make those decisions. These issues come at a time when we…




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