The Politics of Mass Digitization

Nanna Bonde Thylstrup (University of Copenhagen)

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MIT Press
29 January 2019

Advertising & society; Digital TV & media centres: consumer & user guides

Series: The Politics of Mass Digitization

A new examination of mass digitization as an emerging sociopolitical and sociotechnical phenomenon that alters the politics of cultural memory.

Today, all of us with internet connections can access millions of digitized cultural artifacts from the comfort of our desks. Institutions and individuals add thousands of new cultural works to the digital sphere every day, creating new central nexuses of knowledge. How does this affect us politically and culturally? In this book, Nanna Bonde Thylstrup approaches mass digitization as an emerging sociopolitical and sociotechnical phenomenon, offering a new understanding of a defining concept of our time. Arguing that digitization has become a global cultural political project, Thylstrup draws on case studies of different forms of mass digitization-including Google Books, Europeana, and the shadow libraries Monoskop, lib.ru, and Ubuweb-to suggest a different approach to the study of digital cultural memory archives. She constructs a new theoretical framework for understanding mass digitization that focuses on notions of assemblage, infrastructure, and infrapolitics. Mass digitization does not consist merely of neutral technical processes, Thylstrup argues, but of distinct subpolitical processes that give rise to new kinds of archives and new ways of interacting with the artifacts they contain. With this book, she offers important and timely guidance on how mass digitization alters the politics of cultural memory to impact our relationship with the past and with one another.

By: Nanna Bonde Thylstrup (University of Copenhagen)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 19mm
ISBN: 9780262039017
ISBN 10: 026203901X
Series: The Politics of Mass Digitization
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 29 January 2019
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Nanna Bonde Thylstrup is Associate Professor at Copenhagen Business School. She is affiliated with several large-scale collaborative research projects exploring the role of archives, infrastructures,and cultural memory institutions in the age of digitization and big data.