The American Folklife Center curates the Web Cultures Web Archive, which includes sites documenting the creation and sharing of emergent cultural traditions on the web. The mission of the Center is to document traditional cultural forms and practices, and the proliferation of smart phones, tablets, and wireless Internet connections has positioned networked communication as a space where people increasingly develop and share folklore. This collection, co-curated with scholars who study digital culture, captures a set of websites that document elements of the various digital vernaculars enabled through networked and computer-mediated communication.
Web Archives
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CollectionAmerican Folklife Center Web Archive The American Folklife Center Archive, established in the Library of Congress Music Division in 1928 as the Archive of American Folk Song, is now one of the largest archives of ethnographic materials from the United States and around the world, encompassing millions of items of ethnographic and historical documentation recorded from the nineteenth century to the present. Designated by the U.S. Congress as the…
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CollectionVeterans History Project Web Archive The Veterans History Project Web Archive enables the Library to accept veteran-generated websites for inclusion in the larger Veterans History Project, which collects, preserves, and provides access to personal accounts of American war veterans. Some of the projects in the web archive are digital versions of physical collections held by the Veterans History Project, while others provide unique collection material preserved in its born-digital…
- Contributor: Veterans History Project (U.S.) - Library of Congress - American Folklife Center
- Date: 2017
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CollectionWeb Cultures Web Archive The Web Cultures Web Archive includes sites documenting the creation and sharing of emergent cultural traditions on the web. The mission of the American Folklife Center is to document traditional cultural forms and practices, and the proliferation of smart phones, tablets, and wireless Internet connections has positioned networked communication as a space where people increasingly develop and share folklore. This collection, co-curated with scholars…
- Contributor: Library of Congress - American Folklife Center
- Date: 2014
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