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How to Approach Hard Drives as Cultural Heritage
Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of culture and media studies.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1167-046x
2021 (English)In: Digital Human Sciences: New Objects - New Approaches / [ed] Sonya Petersson, Stockholm: Stockholm University Press, 2021, 1, p. 229-251Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Computers and mobile phones are piling up in archives, libraries, and museums. What kind of objects are they, what can they tell us, and how can we approach them? The aim of this chapter is to exemplify what an investigation of a hard drive implicates, the methods needed to conduct it, and what kind of results we can get out of it. To focus the investigation, hard drives are approached as records of everyday media use. The chapter introduces a computer forensic method used as a media ethnographic tool. Computer forensics and media ethnography are rooted in different methodological traditions, but both take an interest in people’s routines and the way they do and organize things. The chapter argues that a hard drive represents a window into the history of new media: into time specific software, formats, and media use. 

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Stockholm: Stockholm University Press, 2021, 1. p. 229-251
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Stockholm Studies in Culture and Aesthetics, E-ISSN 2002-3227 ; 7
Keywords [en]
computer forensics, ethnography, cultural heritage, archives, libraries, media use, everyday life, born-digital records, metadataa
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Media and Communications Cultural Studies
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media and communication studies
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URN: urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-184114DOI: 10.16993/bbk.jISI: 001372539300010ISBN: 978-91-7635-147-5 (print)ISBN: 978-91-7635-144-4 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:umu-184114DiVA, id: diva2:1562871
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The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities (KVHAA)Available from: 2021-06-09 Created: 2021-06-09 Last updated: 2025-04-24Bibliographically approved

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