La mémoire et l’oubli dans l’univers de l’archive totale.

Ethnographie des rapports au passé dans une communauté de bavardage électronique.
Madeleine Pastinelli | 19.02.2009Drawing on fieldwork carried out in an Internet chat room visited for many years by French Canadian adults, this ethnographic study gives an account of the relationship, both individual and collective, to memory and archive in a context defined by a technology that allows the systematic recording and conservation of all interaction. The study shows that, while it appears necessary for everyone involved to produce traces of one’s “electronic” daily life and to keep a record of one’s interaction [...]