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This sounds like an important book for WFTHN researchers. Christine > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Katie Rooke <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Archives by Andrew Lison, Marcel Mars, Tomislav Medak & Rick Prelinger from the University of Minnesota Press > Date: 26 September 2019 at 15:39:14 BST > To: [log in to unmask] > Reply-To: Katie Rooke <[log in to unmask]> > > Dear MECCSA Subscribers, > > We would like to announce a new publication from the University of Minnesota Press, which we hope will be of interest. > > Archives > Andrew Lison, Marcel Mars, Tomislav Medak & Rick Prelinger > > http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/archives-0 <http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/archives-0> > > How digital networks and services bring the issues of archives out of the realm of institutions and into the lives of everyday users > > Archives have become a nexus in the wake of the digital turn. Electronic files, search engines, video sites, and media player libraries make the concepts of “archival” and “retrieval” practically synonymous with the experience of interconnected computing. Archives today are the center of much attention but few agendas. Can archives inform the redistribution of power and resources when the concept of the public library as an institution makes knowledge and culture accessible to all members of society regardless of social or economic status? This book sets out to show that archives need our active support and continuing engagement. > > This volume offers three distinct perspectives on the present status of archives that are at once in disagreement and solidarity with each other, from contributors whose backgrounds cut across the theory–practice divide. Is the increasing digital storage of knowledge pushing us toward a turning point in its democratization? Can archives fulfill their paradoxical potential as utopian sites in which the analog and the digital, the past and future, and remembrance and forgetting commingle? Is there a downside to the present-day impulse toward total preservation? > > Andrew Lison is assistant professor of media study at the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York. > > Marcell Mars is research associate at the Centre for Postdigital Cultures at Coventry University. > > Tomislav Medak is a doctoral student at the Centre for Postdigital Cultures at Coventry University. > > Rick Prelinger, professor of film and digital media at University of California, Santa Cruz, is an archivist, writer, and filmmaker. > > With all best wishes, > > Combined Academic Publishers > > > University of Minnesota Press | August 2019 | 112pp | 9781517908065 | PB | £14.99* > *Price subject to change. > > -------------------------------------------------------- > MeCCSA mailing list > -------------------------------------------------------- > To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the MECCSA list, please visit: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1 <https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1> > ------------------------------------------------------- > MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. > > This mailing list is a free service and is not restricted to members. It is an unmoderated list and content reflect the views of those who post to the list and not of MeCCSA as an organisation. > > MeCCSA recommends that the list be used only for posting of information (for example about events, publications, conferences, lectures) of interest to members or to promote discussion of current issues of wide general interest in the field. Posts to the MeCCSA mailing list are public, indexed by Google, and can be accessed from the JISCMail website (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/meccsa.html <http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/meccsa.html>). > > Any messages posted to the list are subject to the JISCMail acceptable use policy, which states that users should avoid engaging in unreasonable behaviour, or disrupting the general flow of discussion on a list. > > For further information, please visit: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/ <http://www.meccsa.org.uk/> > -------------------------------------------------------- ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the WFTHN list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=WFTHN&A=1