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Saturday, May 26, 2007
I was interested to see how MySpace.com is allowing for a new kind of history to be maintained. This particular article was on the postings of soldiers in Iraq who died. The online entries serve as a new kind of document. This, I suppose, makes MySpace an archive of sorts, though questions of organization and access of and to this information arises. How will librarians and archivists of the future create links to this type of information? How do we teach researchers to use this type of information? Open forums have always been difficult to evaluate. Like nineteenth-century letters and diaries, these online postings reflect what the writer wanted to portray about him/herself and the situation he or she lived in. Individually they are tributes; collectively they can create a history of sorts, but one that might tell us more about self-perception than about actual events.
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