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This week I mused on the purpose of an archive and the invisible hand of the curator. To me, archives are where the dusty truths of history are housed. Whether or not you can find the book or the artifact that adds a needed angle to the truth you’re excavating, the assumption is that […]  The database is a double-edged sword. On the one hand the database has had a huge effect on the development of digital technology, but on the other hand, it opened the door to a wide variety of implications on our culture on a personal level. Gere’s book pointed out that the emergence of digital technologies, […] During our last in-class session, Dr. Zimmerman remarked that our struggle with projects like Witness and EngageMedia may stem from the fact that we are not their primary audience or, to use a term coined by Umberto Eco, “model readers.” This observation may seem like a truism to some, but it’s one I’ve been slowly […] This week’s examples of database projects had varying levels of complexity, from the simplistic and beautiful Post Secret Archive to the multifaceted Hurricane Digital Memory Bank. I found La Buena Vida’s reliance on man-on-the-street interviews to be somewhat boring and predictable. The site resembled another project we looked at this term, The Interview Project, with […] As we have seen throughout our time together in this theoretical multimedia course, We have seen various examples of the new type of ‘digital databases’ that take various shape and form. This week’s curated projects were no exception. How does data-driven journalism take on so many shapes and forms and remain effective in different […] “Post Secret” and “Hurricane Digital Memory Bank” really drew me in this week. “Post Secret” is strange and wonderful and a bit creepy – all at the same time. Each postcard tells its secret in a unique and artful way. Some secrets are funny, others poignant and others quite sad (more than a few touched […] I feel glad that we had to look into digital databases this week because I feel like sometimes projects like these can be looked over and dismissed quickly just because they are the collections of information and stories. When in fact databases are treasure troves on information and the chronicling of stories from everyone that […] Aftermath of the Peshtigo fire Stories of disaster have an appeal. There’s a fascination in the forces of nature – something that reminds us that no matter how advanced a civilization, the primitive, raw fury of a storm, fire, flood or earthquake can destroy the indestructible. As a kid, I was fascinated with […] I think a few people may have commented last week, after reviewing “Saving the Sierra” that it seemed such a shame that the project was no longer active. As Jesikah herself noted in the interview with Helen, the only reason that this site was even still up was that her and her project partner were […] Nothing hints so strongly of the potential for participatory media sense making as an archive of raw data. It’s like a lump of clay just waiting for a pair of hands (or the digital version thereof) of those so inclined to give it definition (spin /angle) in an infinite number of ways. “Rawness” is the […] |
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