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Editors’ Choice: Do We Need a Better Archive of the Internet?

The internet is an archive, but it may not be all that great at it. Sure, it saves any media we can imagine (text, photographs, films, etc). But what about that stuff FROM the network? Status updates, tweets, image macros… they seem to disappear into the ether. Are they not worth as much to us as physical objects? We archive things so we can remember them, so is this network ephemera not worth remembering? Watch the episode to find out more!

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This content was selected for Digital Humanities Now by Editor-in-Chief Lisa Rhody based on nominations by Editors-at-Large: Anu Paul, Ayla Stein, Ester Rincon Calero, James O’Sullivan, Kristen Mapes, Beth Secrist, Amy Williams, Aisha Clarke, Sarah Canfield Fuller, Andrew Hyde, Laurie Allen, Chiara Bernardi, Souvenise St. Louis, and Kevin McQueeney