Article ID: CBB538485588

Collecting Middle-Class Memories? The Pandemic, Technology, and Crowdsourced Archives (April 2022)

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Zumthurm, Tizian (Author)
Krebs, Stefan (Author)


Technology and Culture
Volume: 63
Issue: 2
Pages: 483-493


Publication Date: April 2022
Edition Details: Public History section
Language: English

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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Simonutti, Luisa
Fernando Rosa
John Aggrey
Samanta Alarcón-Arcos
Stehrenberger, Cécile Stephanie
Abou Traore
Concepts
Pandemics
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Medicine
Medicine and society
Public health
Epidemics
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
19th century
Places
Europe
South Korea
Netherlands
Japan
Chile
Institutions
World Health Organization (WHO)
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