Kate Gordon
From DigitalRhetoricCollaborative
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Curation (Digital Rhetoric)
Overview
Curation in digital rhetoric is the process involving the compiling information for the purpose of constructing a text in order to present a specific argument. Curation at a basic level, involves the selection,organization, and presentation of information accessed from archives. With such a vast amount of data available across a wide range of media, the opportunities of curation are reimagined under the scope of the digital world.
"Cathy Davidson explains that the first wave of humanities computing brought with it the onset of digital curation—a process that made archival materials widely available on the Web and “transformed how we do research and who can do it." (709) [1]
Media
The webpage offers a canvas for the scholar now to attempt to build an argument made up of various media for the purpose of building perspectives.
Visual
- Photograph
- Video
Audio
- Music
- Sound Clips
The ability to use these media collectively has been available in museums but what makes digital curation so unique is the
Challenge
Todd Presner explains, although these new data-mining technologies may “threaten to overwhelm traditional approaches to knowledge,” they do “[allow] us to ask questions that weren’t previously possible.[2]
Examples & Abilities
Digital Curation for the purpose of rhetoric can span an immense range of archives; historical, scientific, literary, artistic to name a few. Listed below are a sample array of curated archives in digital:
References
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