Architects of memory : information and rhetoric in networked archival age [Book review]

Abstract

In Architects of Memory, information scientist Nathan R. Johnson explores the development of information management in the post-World War II period and its con-sequences for public memory and human agency. The author outlines the developments in the field of memory and to what extent the concept of vastness of data that is seemingly a click away is an oversimplification of the contemporary information landscape. The process of memory and remembering developed as very much dependent upon computational technologies and mem-ory infrastructures. The author maps the history of librarianship and its so-called competitor in the form of information sciences.