From Home Movies to Home Pages
Susan Aasman, professeure en humanités numériques et directrice du département journalisme et médias à l'université de Groningen aux Pays-Bas, donne une conférence en anglais intitulée « From Home Movies to Home Pages: exploring public and private challenges in archiving the everyday » (« Des films familiaux aux sites personnels : exploration des enjeux publics et privés de l'archivage du quotidien »).
In this lecture, Susan Aasman will address the growing struggle for both public heritage institutions and individuals to have agency and control over our growing volume of everyday media expressions.
Making and sharing messages, home pages, online videos online have become ubiquitous communication practices. This daily stream of everyday, vernacular expressions pile up in cloud storage services, on USB memory sticks and hard drives, on smartphones devices and laptops, or flow around on social media platforms. These types of material can be of huge importance for future historians. For instance, home movie archives have become rich treasure troves for historians, anthropologists but also for film makers and curators.
However, keeping and storing digital materials in such an organized way that it can be retrieved whenever needed, has become a struggle for most of us as everyday users, and in the long run for public heritage institutions as well. What once was a matter of keeping track of a box filled with canned film reels, or a shelf full of VHS videocassettes has now become a matter of having digital literacy skills in order to be able to perform some level of everyday data management. For many users, this means that while having an abundance of memory materials, they also experience memory loss. In order to understand better the archival challenges related to these forms of “everyday data cultures” (Burgess, 2021), we need to understand the everyday complexities of individuals dealing with the messiness of personal archiving and how this has been facilitated by or disrupted by changing media technologies, changing conventions about privacy or intimacy, and continuously anxieties about the impact of Big Tech.
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