I recently stumbled upon Essays: Archives as Medium , on the web site Old Messengers, New Media: The Legacy of Innis and McLuhan (in turn part of Library and Archives Canada online.) From Lance Strate’s essay The Medium is the Memory:
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April 28, 2009
Immediacy & Persistence: MIT6 Notes part 1
I spent last Friday Saturday and a bit of Sunday at MIT 6, the 6th biennial Media in Transition gathering convened by MIT’s Comparative Media Studies (CMS) program.
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Tags: archives, archivists, digital archives, digital preservation, digitization, media, MIT6, social media, social networking
April 1, 2009
Conference: Media in Transition 6 at MIT
Media in Transition: April 24 – 26, at MIT. Excerpt from the conference description: ” What challenges confront librarians and archivists who must supervise the migration of print culture to digital formats and who must also find ways to preserve and catalogue the vast and increasing range of words and images generated by new technologies? How are shifts in distribution and circulation affecting the stories we tell, the art we produce, the social structures and policies we construct?”
