Reference : Collecting Middle-Class Memories? The COVID-19 Pandemic, Technology and Crowdsourced ...
Scientific journals : Article
Arts & humanities : History
http://hdl.handle.net/10993/53492
Collecting Middle-Class Memories? The COVID-19 Pandemic, Technology and Crowdsourced Archives
English
Zumthurm, Tizian []
Krebs, Stefan mailto [University of Luxembourg > Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH) > Public History and Outreach >]
2022
Technology and Culture
The Johns Hopkins University Press
63
2
483-493
Yes
International
0040-165X
1097-3729
United States
[en] history of technology ; covid-19 ; memory studies
[en] Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, many groups initiated crowd-sourced archives that invite members of the public to upload personal material connected to the pandemic. By archiving and publishing how "ordinary" people experienced and perceived the pandemic, these platforms influence how the pandemic is remembered and how historians will write about it. This article presents the example of covidmemory.lu and compares contributions to this platform from Luxembourg with others from German speaking countries. Analyzing users' thoughts about empty streets and skies and their experiences with computers and phones for work and leisure at home, this article discusses the potential and the limitations of crowdsourced archives for future historians of technology.
Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH) > Public History and Outreach (PHO)
Fonds National de la Recherche - FnR
Researchers ; Students
http://hdl.handle.net/10993/53492
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/854010
FnR ; FNR14704989 > Stefan Krebs > COMEM > History In The Making: #Covidmemory > 01/06/2020 > 31/03/2021 > 2020

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