Moreover,when each computer connects with internet, all the private memories will no longer have privacy.Such as, Facebook,people post their daily lives in their webpage, the memories are shareable. And for example,Google is a huge digital archive, its search engine can find out everything that be post in internet. In the past, archive is an architecture but now archive is an abstract space rather than a real place. People do not have to go to somewhere to put their memories in, now they just need a laptop, seat down in front of the computer and typing things in.
But I want to question that do the digital archives really can store everything and keep them forever? Do personal digital memories safely be stored in digital archives?
Lots of users ignore that electromagnetic materials have some limitations. They think that data saved on their digital archives will always be there. Although digital archives able to save a large number of information and keep them longer time. But sometimes old software or hardware is incompatible with the new one or some soft and hard technologies are incompatible. The devices should be continually updated. The digital archives are ephemeral, we can understand like that they also require constant regeneration.Meanwhile,digital devices' memory capacities are limited either.
Furthermore, digital archive is not a completely safety space for personal memory. Those network companies, for instance, social networking sites claim that they work as archives in different notions are in terms of their business logic. They collect users personal data, such as, preferences, habits, and then these data will be used as commercial purpose.
My project start with above ideas of digital archive and personal memory.
(traditional arhive)
(the symbol of digital archives)
reference:
Foucault, M. (2002) The Archaeology of Knowledge, ed. and trans. A.M.
Sheridan Smith. NewYork/London: Routledge.
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