This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 4.0 International License. | Details of our policyCompare the Internet Archive TV News Archive, the Vanderbilt Television News Archive, YouTube, the websites of your local stations, and the websites of ABC, NBC, or CBS. What types of content are available on each site? What is missing? Can you sketch out a lifecycle of television news? Do you think the lifecycle has changed recently?
Using Google, try to find newspapers from the 1970s. What did you find? Look at ProQuest Historical Newspapers. Why do you think the results are different? What newspapers from the 1970s does the Library of Congress have? Can you sketch out the lifecycle of one newspaper?
If you were interested in documenting a current event, like Black Lives Matter, what types of materials would you want to collect? Remember that you can't collect everything! How might what you collect now affect how historians interpret the event in 50 years? What are the lifecycles of these sources? How do they differ from the case studies?
These are all primary sources about France in World War I. What are the lifecycles of each item? How do their lifecycles differ? How do their perspectives differ?
What do you think is the lifecycle of this collection of hip hop party and event flyers? What types of related materials might not have been preserved?
Can you figure out who collected these two books and how they ended up online? Why do you think they were collected? What sorts of related materials might not have been collected? Are there ethical or moral implications of collecting and digitizing materials like this?
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