Title Information
Title
Digital archives and digital publics
Name: Personal
Name Part
McGrath, Jim
Role
Role Term (marcrelator) (authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators", valueURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/cre")
creator
Name: Corporate
Name Part
John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage
Role
Role Term: Text (marcrelator)
sponsor
Type of Resource
text
Genre (aat)
syllabi
Origin Information
Date Created
Spring 2020
Date Created (keyDate="yes", encoding="w3cdtf")
2020-01
Language
Language Term: Code (ISO639-2B)
eng
Physical Description
Extent
1 PDF
Abstract
This course considers the (perhaps surprisingly) long history of digital archives in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, surveying various efforts of academic institutions, community organizers, activists, amateurs, and anarchists, examining digitized and “born-digital” materials, reflecting on relationships between ideas of cultural value and forms of materiality, technology, access, and dissemination. Particular attention will be paid to imagined audiences and uses of digital archives: scholarly, political, speculative, creative, memetic, and otherwise. This course provides students with opportunities to learn from archivists (and to visit local special collections on/off-campus) and to develop projects informed by best practices in digital public humanities.
Note (displayLabel="Course no.")
AMST 2688