Digital Memory and the Archive: Volume 39

by Wolfgang Ernst

Book Overview

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 other computer files are archived. Media software and cloud storage allow for the instantaneous cataloging and preservation of data, from music, photographs,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816677670
• ISBN13: 9780816677672
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.5"