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Cultural Politics of ‘World’ Archives

Feat. Nanna Bonde Thylstrup 22nd July 2020 1h 2m

Discussing Thylstrup’s ‘The Politics of Mass Digitization’ which displaces the fantasy of ‘total archives’ revealing the corporate and cultural domination of Google Books, Europeana, and the ‘shadow’ libraries that subvert these.

BIO Nanna Bonde Thylstrup is Associate Professor of Communication and Digital Media at Copenhagen Business School (CBS). She examines the cultural politics of digitization and datafication with a focus on gender, race and the environment.

She is author of ‘The Politics of Mass Digitization’ (MIT Press, 2019) and co-editor of ‘Uncertain Archives: Critical Keywords for the Age of Big Data’ (MIT Press, 2020).

CAPTION Nanna Bonde Thylstrup – The Politics of Mass Digitization (MIT Press, 2020)
CAPTION Nanna Bonde Thylstrup