La conférence RESAW 2023 : Exploring the Archived Net During a Highly Transformative Age se tiendra les 5 et 6 juin 2023 au Musée des civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée (Marseille).
Elle sera une event d’encourager les échanges à partir des approches utilisées dans différents espaces culturels à différents niveaux afin de réfléchir sur l’archivage du Net en Méditerranée et dans ses pourtours.
Exploring the Archived Net During a Highly Transformative Age 5-6 June 2023 Marseille
The current transnational political and health crises are a stark reminder of the necessity to pay specific attention to the recurrent info that is subtle on the internet and social media platforms. These digital paperwork, both chic and sinister, have develop into a routine aspect in human activity, ranging from ironic memes about lockdown measures to tragic movies documenting the violent actions committed towards civilians by armed forces. The nature of net archiving methods aims at sustaining these born-digital sources which are essential for the research of current phenomena. Subsequently, these constitute valuable supplies that illustrate the history of the current context because the 1990s while contributing to the development of a digital heritage, which is each a reminiscence for future societies and an indispensable source of up to date information for future researchers.
Nevertheless, the brief time span throughout which transnational occasions (pandemics, political crises, and so on.) have taken place shouldn't masks the profound transformations which have marked societies because the democratisation of the Net within the 1990s, whether or not it's the local weather challenge, the assertion of individual elementary rights, the consequences of financial liberalism or the shifts in spiritual practices. These transformations have been accompanied by far-reaching socio-technical developments and an enlargement in digital cultures, whose international history is yet to be written. The first net archiving initiatives that originated in the 1990s, while providing a beneficial supply base, additionally created a large worldwide following, with organisations and people reminiscent of GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums), students, civil society… whose goal was to collect, safeguard and render the previous Net accessible to all. This archived Net constitutes a singular material for the research of current phenomena, while providing the likelihood to protect the corpora and find web sites which might be presently inaccessible, and retrieve previous web sites which are presently unavailable on-line. Nevertheless, utilizing Net archives as analysis materials necessitates epistemological and methodological reflection, and has subsequently emerged as a subject of research in itself.
In recent times, utilizing the Net to review social, cultural and political phenomena has developed considerably, and has thus contributed to advances within the historical past of the Net and analysis in the social sciences and humanities. Moreover, the Net and digital cultures have themselves turn out to be a subject of research, typically by trial and error, by way of the exploration of methodologies, whether they be grassroots approaches or tasks rooted in the digital humanities. Since 2012, RESAW (resaw.eu), an organisation created to develop a pan-European analysis infrastructure, has contributed significantly to this dynamic that focuses on the research of Net archives and the previous Net. This highlights the extent to which a greater information of the Net’s history might help us to extra successfully face the challenges of a world in full transformation. RESAW has also created the opportunity to develop an epistemological and methodological reflection on the making of Net archives, thus establishing itself as a serious participant in Net archives research, an interdisciplinary research subject undergoing radical restructuring.
Eight years after the first RESAW conference, which offered for ground-breaking debates on technical, scientific and archival elements, the conference in Marseille, organised by Aix-Marseille University, proposes to appraise Net archives studies in relation to the analysis carried out on the Web, social media, the Net archives and reborn digital heritage. It'll look at the event of Net archiving whereas highlighting the best way by which technical, cultural, geopolitical, societal and environmental transformations influence the conception, research and dissemination of this reborn digital heritage. There are lots of international challenges and the stakes of Net archiving have an effect on not solely researchers and GLAMs, but in addition the entire of civil society, as the various informal archiving initiatives led by amateurs in nations that don't have a set system have illustrated. The convention will subsequently concentrate on the strategies and practices carried out by those who have explored and continue to discover the archived Net while opening up views for the years to return. Situated on the Mediterranean shores, the convention in Marseille might be a chance to stimulate discussions based mostly on the approaches utilized in totally different cultural areas on totally different levels with a view to mirror on Net archiving in the Mediterranean and its surrounding areas.
Theme scope and convention subjects
Whether or not it considerations research based mostly on net archives or reflections on net archiving, (non-exclusive) areas of curiosity could be submitted:
- History of the Net and digital cultures
- Research of current events or phenomena based mostly on using the archived Net
- Memory studies, commemorations and mediation: new methods of diffusing history on the Net
- Methods for learning the archived Net (DH, challenges of platformisation), the archived Net as a research technique, Net archives as an investigative device (reality checking, activism, investigative journalism, OSINT (Open Source Intelligence))
- Archiving the Net: processes, actors, governance, accessibility
- GLAM and Net archives
- Moral and authorized issues of Net archiving and the research of the archived Net
- Preserving and sustaining the archived Net
- Archiving the Net with out institutional help (blind spots in robotic archiving, activist initiatives, bottom-up archiving)
- Archiving the Net within the face of up to date challenges: geopolitics, surroundings, inclusiveness (cultural variety, gender problem)
- Illustration of the range of cultural and linguistic backgrounds in Net archiving
- Digital arts and visible cultures: preservation points
- Educating and Net archives
- Scale issues: the native Net, under-represented nations, the national Net, transnational dynamics
Comité d’organisation
- Sophie Gebeil, TELEMMe, Aix-Marseille College
- Jean-Christophe Peyssard, MMSH, CNRS
- Maryline Crivello, TELEMMe, Aix-Marseille College
- With the help of the TELEMMe Team
Comité de sélection
- Susan Aasman, University of Groningen, NL
- Valérie Beaudoin, Telecom Paris – Institut Polytechnique de Paris, FR
- Patrice Bellot, Aix-Marseille University, FR
- Anat Ben David, The Open College of Israel, IL
- Mohamed Ali Berhouma, Institut supérieur des beaux arts de Nabeul, TN
- Emmanuelle Bermès, French Nationwide Library (BnF), FR
- Nicola Bingham, British Library, IIPC, UK
- Frédéric Clavert, University of Luxembourg, LU
- Kevin Driscoll, University of Virginia, US
- Gerard Goggin, Wee Kim Wee Faculty of Communication and Info, SG
- Daniel Gomes, Archivo.pt, PT
- Mark Graham, Internet Archive, US
- Fabienne Greffet, University of Lorraine, FR
- Adeline Joffres, Huma-Num, FR
- Emily Maemura, College of Toronto, CA
- Ian Milligan, College of Waterloo, FR
- Claude Mussou, INA – National Audiovisual Institute, F
- Jessica Ogden, College of Bristol, UK
- Philippe Rygiel, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, FR
- Marta Severo, Université Paris Nanterre, FR
- Benjamin Thierry, Sorbonne College, FR
- Peter Webster, Unbiased Researcher, UK
- David Wrisley, New York University Abu Dhabi, AE
Informations pratiques
- Pour contribuer : https://resaw2023.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/8
- La date limite de dépôt des propositions est fixée au 21 novembre 2022.
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