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The Digital Humanities Manifesto 2.0
“librarians are what the internet is aching for—people on task to care about the past, with respect to the past and also to what it shall bequeath to the future.” Can we reimagine libraries for the digital age?
newpublic.org • The word for web is forest
In the end, one can see collective curation to be the path moving forward, and to go back to biblical prophecies mentioned prior, if biting from the “forbidden apple” made us Godlike, maybe the fault was in the individualistic approach to “an all encompassing being” -the internet has given us the opportunity to become enlightened communities, if we
... See moreAndrea Hernandez • Curation as Salvation
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While the notional shift from programming to curation can feel academic, it represents a crucial step in the democratization of media. Through thousands of individual curators, each of us will be able to escape the tyranny of averages and the limitations of algorithmic recommendations, as well as benefit from the ability to become tastemakers ourse... See more
Tal Shachar • REDEF ORIGINAL: Age of Abundance: How the Content Explosion will Invert the Media Industry
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It has become popular to say we live in the information age, and we need curation to help us sort through the mess. But thus far, the conversation around “curation” has been too focused on the content and not enough on the structure. We seem to have accepted the job of the curator as providing a product review, a list of links, a song recommendatio... See more
Sari Azout • Re-Organizing the World’s Information: Why We Need More Boutique… — Mirror
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The job of being a curator becomes more important as abundance and variety increase
Alex Danco • Positional Scarcity
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Democratization of curation changed the role and value of curators in form, but not in cultural importance.