Open AccessAffective Collections: Care Practices in Digital Community Archives
Author(s) -
Kaitlyn Grant
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
proceedings of the annual conference of cais
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2562-7589
DOI - 10.29173/cais1105
Subject(s) - thematic analysis , oral history , sociology , digital archives , public relations , process (computing) , digital era , political science , engineering ethics , library science , engineering , world wide web , qualitative research , computer science , social science , anthropology , operating system , the internet
This paper will present the literature, theoretical framework, and preliminary findings of my MLIS/MA thesis. My research explores how digital community archives use participation-based methods to build a feminist ethics of care into the archival process. These participation-based methods encourage community members to contribute to the collecting, describing, and creating of records. I will use thematic analysis and critical discourse analysis to explore communitymade content associated with the Flin Flon Heritage Project and Harvest Moon Oral History. I am specifically exploring how community archives could enact an ethics of care through the use of care practices in a digital environment.