Faculty Associate Ethan Zuckerman and Ryan McGrady argue that platforms like YouTube functional as accidental cultural archives "through [their] accumulation of a vast quantity of audiovisual materials by and about humans," comparing these archives to a set of late-20th-century photographs and the ruins of Pompeii. The authors note that preserving random samples might be more prudent given the vast (and unknown!) number of videos YouTube hosts. Read more from the International Journal of Communication.
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