I've shifted focus this year. After writing about the end of privacy for the past two years in relation to higher education and journalism, I am now considering what role research into the life of another has been transformed by the digital age. Once one went to an archive that contained the writer's literary heritage: what happens when that archive goes digital, taking with it all the secrets that any transcribed life contains?
Archiving the Archivist: A Project on Writing, Recovery, and Memory
21st century literacies, History, Privacy
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Nov 122012
