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The Anthology in Digital Culture, Forms and Affordances

Author

Taurino; Giulia

Year

2023

Publisher

Amsterdam University Press

Language

English

ISBN

978-9-46372-426-5

Link

Last Update

01-Nov-2024

Keywords

Computer Science

Description

The anthology is a form of cultural preservation. It can be historical, political, and technological, and can expand into forms of narrative adaptation, experimentation, and organization. Since the origins of writing systems, this editorial structure has provided not only a conceptual shape to oral and written narratives, but also a material means for cultural survival. Traditionally referring to collections of short literary works, anthologies have offered important curatorial frameworks for the development, organization, and retrieval of stories – prose, scripts, epigrams, or poems – contributing to recounting a partial history of human societies through organized arrangements of narrative artifacts. From paper-based media...

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