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Collecting Middle-Class Memories? The Pandemic, Technology, and Crowdsourced Archives

Author(s) -

Tizian Zumthurm,

Stefan Krebs

Publication year - 2022

Publication title -

technology and culture

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.389

H-Index - 34

eISSN - 1097-3729

pISSN - 0040-165X

DOI - 10.1353/tech.2022.0059

Subject(s) - pandemic , upload , covid-19 , german , publishing , work (physics) , class (philosophy) , media studies , history , public relations , internet privacy , political science , sociology , world wide web , computer science , engineering , law , archaeology , medicine , mechanical engineering , disease , pathology , artificial intelligence , infectious disease (medical specialty)

Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, many groups initiated crowd-sourced archives that invite members of the public to upload personal material connected to the pandemic. By archiving and publishing how "ordinary" people experienced and perceived the pandemic, these platforms influence how the pandemic is remembered and how historians will write about it. This article presents the example of covidmemory.lu and compares contributions to this platform from Luxembourg with others from German speaking countries. Analyzing users' thoughts about empty streets and skies and their experiences with computers and phones for work and leisure at home, this article discusses the potential and the limitations of crowdsourced archives for future historians of technology.

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