On libraries, memory and power

Authors

  • Maria Lucia Montes Universidade de São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1980-4466.v0i17p47-66

Keywords:

Libraries, Knowledge, Memory

Abstract

The essay explores the impact of technologies of information and communication on the preservation of knowledge and memory, a function traditionally attributed to libraries after the invention of writing. By comparing the range and flexibility of the new media to the oral traditions of early Greek poets or African griots as guardians of the memory and history of their people, it points out similarities that lead to reflect on the very production of knowledge and memory, and the power relations supporting them. However unpredictable its results, given the open-ended  social processes it can trigger off, the democratization of access to information and communication provided by the new media is clearly a sign and an instrument of change in contemporary societies.

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Published

2013-12-23

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Colections and Archives

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