Historic Newspapers in the Digital Age

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Paul Gooding (University of East Anglia, UK)

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Routledge
12 December 2016

Storage, maintenance & preservation of collections; Media studies; Press & journalism

Series: Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities

In recent years, cultural institutions and commercial providers have created extensive digitised newspaper collections. This book asks the timely question: what can the large-scale digitisation of newspapers tell us about the wider cultural phenomenon of mass digitisation? The unique form and materiality of newspapers, and their grounding in a particular time and place, provide challenges for researchers and digital resource creators alike. At the same time, the wider context in which digitisation of cultural heritage occurs shapes the impact of digital resources in ways which fall short of the grand ambitions of the wider theoretical discourse. Drawing on case studies from leading digitised newspaper collections, the book aims to provide a bridge between the theory and practice of how these digitised collections are being used. Beginning with an exploration of the hyperbolic nature of technological discourses, the author explores how web interfaces, funding models and the realities of contemporary user behaviour contrast with the hyperbolic discourse surrounding mass digitisation. This book will be of particular interest to those who want to investigate how user studies can inform our understanding of technological phenomena, including digital resource creators, information professionals, students and researchers in universities, libraries, museums and archives.

By: Paul Gooding (University of East Anglia UK)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 430g
ISBN: 9781472463388
ISBN 10: 1472463382
Series: Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities
Pages: 218
Publication Date: 12 December 2016
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Paul Gooding is Research Fellow in Digital Humanities in the School of Art, Media and American Studies at the University of East Anglia, UK.

Reviews for Historic Newspapers in the Digital Age: Search All About It!

Historic Newspapers in the Digital Age will be of interest to media historians and other researchers who use digitised newspapers collections.[...] Overall, this is a very interesting book both for what it tells us about how digital resources are currently used by researchers, and how this diverges from earlier overly optimistic projections of total revolution. -Aaron Ackerley, University of Sheffield, UK