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Title:
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The Autological Constitution of Digital Cultural Artefacts
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An Analysis of the Implications of ICT on Memory Organizations |
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Author:
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Marton, Attila |
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Abstract:
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The societal shift from writing to printing to information and communication
technologies has been accompanied by a shift in the structure of social memory that
seems to threaten our capability to remember. Within this context, a preliminary
analysis is offered on the impact of the digitization of cultural heritage on the ways
social memory is being organized by memory institutions (archives, libraries and
museums) attempting to bring their repositories online. Informed by the work of
Niklas Luhmann and Elena Esposito, the paper addresses the problem of an ICT
driven organization of cultural heritage transforming information objects into
autological, self-describing digital information objects. The research aims to
contribute the notion of memory as a counter-concept to the discussion on
information and its technologies in the information systems field and related domains
such as organization studies and the social study of ICT. It also advocates the
necessity to focus more on the implications of ICT on the ways social memory is
structured. |
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URI:
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http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8903
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Date:
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2014-03-27 |
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Notes:
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Paper presented at the 3rd Latin American and European Meeting on Organization
Studies (LAEMOS), 7–10 April 2010, Buenos Aires.
Sub-theme 4: Digital media, information and organizations |
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