4 The Licit and Illicit Nature of Mass Digitization
Introduction: Lurking in the Shadows
Lib.ru
Monoskop
UbuWeb
The Infrapolitics of Shadow Libraries
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Acknowledgments
- I Framing Mass Digitization
- 1 Understanding Mass Digitization
Introduction
Framing, Mapping, and Diagnosing Mass Digitization
Setting the Stage: Assembling the Motley Crew of Mass Digitization
Interrogating Mass Digitization
Assembling Mass Digitization
Politics in Mass Digitization: Infrastructure and Infrapolitics
Power in Mass Digitization
- II Mapping Mass Digitization
- 2 The Trials, Tribulations, and Transformations of Google Books
Introduction
The New Librarians
The Scaling Techniques of Mass Digitization
Infrastructural Transformations
The Infrapolitics of Contract
The Politics of Google Books
- 3 Sovereign Soul Searching: The Politics of Europeana
Introduction
A European Response
The Infrastructural Reality of Late-Sovereignty
Harmonizing Europe: From Canon to Copyright
The Infrapolitics of Interoperability
The “Work” in Networking
Collecting Europe
- 4 The Licit and Illicit Nature of Mass Digitization
Introduction: Lurking in the Shadows
Lib.ru
Monoskop
UbuWeb
The Infrapolitics of Shadow Libraries
- III Diagnosing Mass Digitization
- 5 Lost in Mass Digitization
The Desire and Despair of Large-Scale Collections
Too Much—Never Enough
The Ambivalent Flâneur
Labyrinthine Imaginaries: Infrastructural Perspectives of Power and Knowledge Production
The Architecture of Serendipitous Platforms
The Infrapolitics of Platform Power
6 Concluding Remarks
- Notes
References
Index
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A new examination of mass digitization as an emerging sociopolitical and sociotechnical phenomenon that alters the politics of cultural memory. Today, all of us with internet connections can access millions of digitized cultural artifacts from the comfort of our desks. Institutions and individuals add thousands of new cultural works to the digital sphere every day, creating new central nexuses of knowledge. How does this affect us politically and culturally? In this book, Nanna Bonde Thylstrup approaches mass digitization as an emerging sociopolitical and sociotechnical phenomenon, offering a new understanding of a defining concept of our time. Arguing that digitization has become a global cultural political project, Thylstrup draws on case studies of different forms of mass digitization—including Google Books, Europeana, and the shadow libraries Monoskop, lib.ru, and Ubuweb—to suggest a different approach to the study of digital cultural memory archives. She constructs a new theoretical framework for understanding mass digitization that focuses on notions of assemblage, infrastructure, and infrapolitics. Mass digitization does not consist merely of neutral technical processes, Thylstrup argues, but of distinct subpolitical processes that give rise to new kinds of archives and new ways of interacting with the artifacts they contain. With this book, she offers important and timely guidance on how mass digitization alters the politics of cultural memory to impact our relationship with the past and with one another.
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A new examination of mass digitization as an emerging sociopolitical and sociotechnical phenomenon that alters the politics of cultural memory. Today, all of us with internet connections can access millions of digitized cultural artifacts from the comfort of our desks. Institutions and individuals add thousands of new cultural works to the digital sphere every day, creating new central nexuses of knowledge. How does this affect us politically and culturally? In this book, Nanna Bonde Thylstrup approaches mass digitization as an emerging sociopolitical and sociotechnical phenomenon, offering a new understanding of a defining concept of our time. Arguing that digitization has become a global cultural political project, Thylstrup draws on case studies of different forms of mass digitization—including Google Books, Europeana, and the shadow libraries Monoskop, lib.ru, and Ubuweb—to suggest a different approach to the study of digital cultural memory archives. She constructs a new theoretical framework for understanding mass digitization that focuses on notions of assemblage, infrastructure, and infrapolitics. Mass digitization does not consist merely of neutral technical processes, Thylstrup argues, but of distinct subpolitical processes that give rise to new kinds of archives and new ways of interacting with the artifacts they contain. With this book, she offers important and timely guidance on how mass digitization alters the politics of cultural memory to impact our relationship with the past and with one another.