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Reassembling Digital Archives: Methodological Strategies for Counter-Archiving and Marginalized Community Memory

This paper proposes novel techniques for reassembling digital archives to challenge dominant power structures and include marginalized voices.

Open to researchQualified 88/100P4 provenance
Primary research question

How can digital archival techniques be reconfigured to challenge canonical power structures and preserve marginalized memories?

Knowledge gap

What remains worth asking

Current digital archival practices may inadvertently reinforce existing biases rather than promoting inclusive historical narratives.

Potential contribution

Why it may matter

Offers a framework for cultural institutions to democratize digital memory and archival access.

Academic placement

OECD fields and topic tags

Digital HumanitiesInformation ScienceSociology

Scope: Digital archival practices and community memory. · Method signals: Archival Research, Computational Analysis

Possible study pathways

One question, different levels

Research master’s

Analyzing the algorithmic bias in digital heritage collections.

Doctoral

Developing new methodologies for counter-archiving in the digital age.

originalityAdvanced
methodologyModerate
Data accessModerate
ethicsModerate

Qualification signal

88/100

  • Highly relevant to museum and library studies.
  • Interdisciplinary approach.
  • Open-access scholarly source and DOI metadata verified

Provenance

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  • Open-access status verified
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APA 7 source

Blanke, T. (2024). Reassembling digital archives—strategies for counter-archiving. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 11(1), Article 201. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-02668-4

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