Summary
Martin Pogačar: Media archaeologies, micro-archives and storytelling
This is a book about the lives of the past and the ways in which they are recorded in digital media. It shows how digital media influence memory, remembrance and storytelling, and tries to understand how, in the time of universal digitization, our relationship to the past, but also to the present and the future, is changing. It is an attempt to understand how we, as individuals and as collectivities, are intertwined in time and space with the world around us. The book raises the question of how media technologies affect our lives and how they structure the rhythms of our daily lives. The study is emotionally and generationally anchored in the historical and popular culture heritage of the second half of the twentieth century, one of the most obscure periods in human history so far, undoubtedly because it is by far the most written and archived about it. In addition, it is placed in the context of unprecedented technological progress and deep socio-cultural upheavals that confuse humanity at the beginning of the XXI century.
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