Overview

The rise of digitisation and social media over the past decade has fostered the rise of participatory and DIY digital culture. Likewise, the archival community leveraged these new technologies, aiming to engage users and expand access to collections. This book examines the creation and development of participatory archives, its impact on archival theory, and present case studies of its real world application. Participatory Archives: Theory and practice is divided into four sections with each focused on a particular aspect of participatory archives: social tagging and commenting; transcription; crowdfunding; and outreach & activist communities. Each section includes chapters summarizing the existing literature, a discussion of theoretical challenges and benefits, and a series of case studies. The case studies are written by a range of international practitioners and provide a wide range of examples in practice, whilst the remaining chapters are supplied by leading scholars from Australia, Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway, the United Kingdom, and the United States. This book will be useful for students on archival studies programs, scholarly researchers in archival studies who could use the book to frame their own research projects, and practitioners who might be most interested in the case studies to see how participatory archives function in practice. The book may also be of interest to other library and information science students, and similar audiences within the broader cultural heritage institution fields of museums, libraries, and galleries.

Full Product Details

Author:   Edward Benoit ,  Alexandra Eveleigh
Publisher:   Facet Publishing
Imprint:   Facet Publishing
ISBN:  

9781783303588

ISBN 10:   1783303581
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   03 September 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Electronic book text
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.

Table of Contents

Contents 1 Defining and framing participatory archives in archival science Edward Benoit III and Alexandra Eveleigh 2 Social tagging and commenting in participatory archives: a critical literature review Alex H. Poole 3 Social tagging and commenting: theoretical perspectives Ina-Maria Jansson and Isto Huvila 4 Project Naming: reconnecting indigenous communities with their histories through archival photographsBeth Greenhorn 5 (Hash)tagging with the users: participatory collection of digital social photography in museums and archivesBente Jensen, Elisabeth Boogh, Kajsa Hartig and Anni Wallenius 6 Engaging curation: a look at the literature on participatory archival transcriptionSumayya Ahmed 7 Subtle transformations: increasing participation and access through transcriptionLorraine A. Dong 8 Crowdsourcing metadata for time-based media in the American Archive of Public BroadcastingCasey Davis Kaufman and Karen Cariani 9 Participatory transcription in Amsterdam and CopenhagenNelleke van Zeeland and Signe Trolle Gronemann 10 Kickstarting archives: crowdfunding and outreach in the digital ageHeather L. Barnes 11 Crowdfunding and the moral economies of community archival workStacy Wood 12 Acquiring equipment for obsolete media through crowdsourcingLaura Alagna 13 Thinking outside the box: crowdfunding the Peter Mackay ArchiveKarl Magee 14 Degrees of mediation: a review of the intersectionality between community and participatory archivesEdward Benoit III and Ana Roeschley 15 Activist participatory communities in archival contexts: theoretical perspectivesAndrew Flinn and Anna Sexton 16 Documenting a social movement in real time: the Preserve the Baltimore Uprising 2015 archive projectJessica Douglas 17 Community partnerships and collection development in the Legacy of Ahmed ProjectHannah Niblett and Jennifer Vickers 18 Challenges, opportunities and future directions of participatory archivesEdward Benoit III and Alexandra Eveleigh Index

Reviews

Author Information

Edward Benoit, III is assistant professor at the School of Library & Information Science at Louisiana State University. He is the coordinator of both the archival studies and cultural heritage resource management MLIS specializations. He received an MA in history, MLIS, and PhD in information studies from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His research focuses on participatory and community archives, nontraditional archival materials, and archival education. He is the founder and director of the Virtual Footlocker Project that examines the personal archiving habits of the 21st century soldier in an effort to develop new digital capture and preservation technologies to support their needs. Alexandra Eveleigh is Collections Information Manager at Wellcome Collection in London, where her role complements her research interests in user experiences and digital technologies in library, archive and museum contexts. From 2014 to 2016, she held academic positions in Information Studies and Digital Humanities at University College London and the University of Westminster respectively, following her PhD research at UCL in collaboration with The National Archives entitled 'Crowding Out the Archivist? Implications of Online User Participation for Archival Theory and Practice' (2015). Prior to this, she worked in both university and local government archives in the United Kingdom, and was awarded a 2008 Winston Churchill Fellowship in connection to her work on born digital archives.

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

No review item found!

Add your own review!

Countries Available

All regions