Aug 13, 2009
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Event Location: Salon G
Dr. Ben Alexander (Chair)
Assistant Professor
City University of New York
Andrew Flinn
University College London
A History of Our Own, Representing Communities and Identities on the Web
Joanna Sassoon
Edith Cowan University
From Tripod to iPod: Sustaining Records and Cultures through Online Communities in Aboriginal Australia
Dr. Jeannette Allis Bastian
Associate Professor/Director of Archives Program
Simmons College
Living in the Web of Memory: Building and Sustaining Virtual Communities of Records and Remembrance
The fragile memory of global online communities invites archivists and historians to examine the relationship of memory and communities, to the records they create in online spaces. The speakers take an international perspective on how online communities, particularly those created by Indigenous and minority groups, stimulate and foster cultural cohesion. How do these records express community identity, and what is the archivist’s role in documenting and sustaining both records and communities?
Direct link: http://saa.archivists.org/Scripts/4Disapi.dll/4DCGI/events/eventdetail.html?Action=Events_Detail&InvID_W=1057
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