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Sabrina R

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  • “I strongly believe that designing the access to complex legacy digital artifacts and systems is the largest contemporary challenge in digital culture. Digital culture is mass culture, and collection and preservation practices have to change to reflect this fact.”
    “Digital Culture is Mass Culture”: An interview with Digital Conservator Dragan Espenschied | The Signal
  • Dragan: As much as Digital Culture is Mass Culture, it is also more about practices than objects. In order for artifacts to survive culturally, they need to become useful again in contemporary digital culture. Since, at the moment, “content” that is isolated, de-contextualized and shuffled around in databases of social networking sites is the main form of communication, to be useful an artifact has to work as a “post,” it has to become impartible and be brought into a format that is accepted everywhere. And that is a screenshot. I have a great setup with emulators and proxy servers and whatnot…
    “Digital Culture is Mass Culture”: An interview with Digital Conservator Dragan Espenschied | The Signal