Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Collective memory in the digital archive

Via its website, SkyNews UK offers an interactive overview of news highlights from 1989 to 2008:


The site invites users to 'explore the biggest news stories from the last 20 years in video, text and pictures and send us your memories'. News photographs, headlines and television are thus remediated via a spatial interface that encourages its users to see personal memory and public history as closely intertwined.

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