Francis X. Blouin Jr. and William G. Rosenberg
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199740543
- eISBN:
- 9780199894673
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199740543.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, Historiography, History of Ideas
While it is obvious that the development of new information technologies has revolutionized communication, their effect on archives has been complicated and in some ways quite problematic. This ...
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While it is obvious that the development of new information technologies has revolutionized communication, their effect on archives has been complicated and in some ways quite problematic. This chapter begins a discussion (continued in Chapter 10) by showing how emerging information technologies opened new possibilities for archives that required a radical change in archival training and management. Tracing the initial steps toward the development of on-line access systems, and then examining in some detail the implications for archives of born digital records, it discusses the problems of defining attributes of digital documents in comparison to those that are paper based, The chapter reviews the archivists’ “appraisal debates” and explains how archivists have marginalized historiographical authorities in favor of conceptualizations drawn solely from what was now called archival theory and from a broader sense of mission.Less
While it is obvious that the development of new information technologies has revolutionized communication, their effect on archives has been complicated and in some ways quite problematic. This chapter begins a discussion (continued in Chapter 10) by showing how emerging information technologies opened new possibilities for archives that required a radical change in archival training and management. Tracing the initial steps toward the development of on-line access systems, and then examining in some detail the implications for archives of born digital records, it discusses the problems of defining attributes of digital documents in comparison to those that are paper based, The chapter reviews the archivists’ “appraisal debates” and explains how archivists have marginalized historiographical authorities in favor of conceptualizations drawn solely from what was now called archival theory and from a broader sense of mission.
Diane Winston
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- December 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780190280031
- eISBN:
- 9780190280062
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190280031.003.0009
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
Secular and Catholic media reacted differently in the first decade of the AIDS crisis. These differences are apparent in an examination of reports on two 1987 stories—priests dying from the AIDS ...
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Secular and Catholic media reacted differently in the first decade of the AIDS crisis. These differences are apparent in an examination of reports on two 1987 stories—priests dying from the AIDS virus, and conflict over the US bishops’ pastoral letter on AIDS—from seven different news sources, secular and religious. The secular press used sensation and conflict frames to report the news, reflecting the enduring values (in Herbert Gans’s term) shared by the secular news outlets, which cast the Church as antithetical to American identity. Despite a variation in ideological leaning among the Catholic papers, their theological value system, suggested that the meaning of life and the heart of Catholic identity reside in active compassion. The debate over AIDS offered Catholics two alternatives. While the secular press depicted the choices as liberal or conservative—and implicitly secular (American) or religious (Catholic)—the sectarian press presented them as two theological orientations and options for loving service.Less
Secular and Catholic media reacted differently in the first decade of the AIDS crisis. These differences are apparent in an examination of reports on two 1987 stories—priests dying from the AIDS virus, and conflict over the US bishops’ pastoral letter on AIDS—from seven different news sources, secular and religious. The secular press used sensation and conflict frames to report the news, reflecting the enduring values (in Herbert Gans’s term) shared by the secular news outlets, which cast the Church as antithetical to American identity. Despite a variation in ideological leaning among the Catholic papers, their theological value system, suggested that the meaning of life and the heart of Catholic identity reside in active compassion. The debate over AIDS offered Catholics two alternatives. While the secular press depicted the choices as liberal or conservative—and implicitly secular (American) or religious (Catholic)—the sectarian press presented them as two theological orientations and options for loving service.
