Doing Media History in 2050
The evolution in both content and storage of information will change the way in which future media historians approach their task: in order to study the history of the mass media, telecommunications and new media of the late twentieth century, scholars will have to interact with digital sources, giv...
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| description | The evolution in both content and storage of information will change the way in which future media historians approach their task: in order to study the history of the mass media, telecommunications and new media of the late twentieth century, scholars will have to interact with digital sources, giving rise to a whole new series of concerns and questions. It is not clear if, how and in what format digital data will be available. What is the relationship between old and new sources? Who should be responsible for preserving the digital heritage? What should be preserved? How should digital data be preserved? All these questions are crucial for preservation strategies now and, above all, for studying media history in 2050. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-fd83e51d9fa348e8973113f1633843ec2022-12-21T21:29:36ZengUniversity of Westminster PressWestminster Papers in Communication and Culture1744-67162017-06-018210.16997/wpcc.188Doing Media History in 2050Tarik Sabry0Communication and Media Research Institute University of WestminsterThe evolution in both content and storage of information will change the way in which future media historians approach their task: in order to study the history of the mass media, telecommunications and new media of the late twentieth century, scholars will have to interact with digital sources, giving rise to a whole new series of concerns and questions. It is not clear if, how and in what format digital data will be available. What is the relationship between old and new sources? Who should be responsible for preserving the digital heritage? What should be preserved? How should digital data be preserved? All these questions are crucial for preservation strategies now and, above all, for studying media history in 2050.https://www.westminsterpapers.org/article/id/168/preservationmedia historylate twentieth‐ and early twenty‐first‐century communicationfuture media historiansdigitalization |
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| title | Doing Media History in 2050 |
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| topic | preservation media history late twentieth‐ and early twenty‐first‐century communication future media historians digitalization |
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