New Media Declarations, Independence, and Text in the Information Age. Renewed interest in the preservation of the original manuscript of the Declaration provides an opportunity to compare how, in the emerging Information Age, we should consider documents and their text as well as to question what records professionals such as archivists should see as their priorities. This article discusses whether we can have the same sense of primary or sacred documents as we have in the past. Published in First Monday. By Richard J. Cox.
Cafes hold a unique place in history as social and meeting places.
Now that computers are making their way into the cafe culture, Crawfoot tries to understand how cafes foster community by looking at the history of cafes. Caldwell argues that fictional media properties like sitcoms, movies, and music are treated with contempt and derision when they try to represent issues that cut across racial, class, and gender boundaries of a culture. Despite this, these properties are paradoxically granted great causative power whenever violence is committed in real life. By Nick Caldwell. McCormack compares the Internet to the early days of radio and questions whether we are learning from our experience with emerging technologies.