[Commlist] Archives - new book

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 _**__*

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.


*University of Minnesota Press**| August 2019 | 112pp | 9781517908065 | 
PB | £14.99**

*Price subject to change.

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