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Reassembling Digital Archives: Methodological Strategies for Counter-Archiving and Marginalized Community Memory
This paper proposes novel techniques for reassembling digital archives to challenge dominant power structures and include marginalized voices.
In plain words
Digital archives can repeat old biases about whose stories count. This study would test new ways of putting archives together so that the memories of groups usually left out are kept and heard.
Primary research question
How can digital archival techniques be reconfigured to challenge canonical power structures and preserve marginalized memories?
Knowledge gap
What remains worth asking
Current digital archival practices may inadvertently reinforce existing biases rather than promoting inclusive historical narratives.
Potential contribution
Why it may matter
Offers a framework for cultural institutions to democratize digital memory and archival access.
Academic placement
Academic fields and topic tags
Study frame: Digital archival practices and community memory. · Method signals: Archival Research, Computational Analysis
Possible study pathways
One question, different levels
Research master’s
Analyzing the algorithmic bias in digital heritage collections.
Doctoral
Developing new methodologies for counter-archiving in the digital age.
- originality
- Advanced
- methodology
- Moderate
- Data access
- Moderate
- ethics
- Moderate
Quality and audit
88/100 quality
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- Highly relevant to museum and library studies.
- Interdisciplinary approach.
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APA 7 source
Blanke, T. (2024). Reassembling digital archives—strategies for counter-archiving. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 11(1), Article 201. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-02668-4
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