Anonymity, Authorship, and Recirculation: A Civil War Episode

Garvey, Ellen Gruber

doi:10.1353/bh.2006.0005

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“…Newspapers and periodicals regularly picked up and recirculated printed material from other sources, sometimes dropping the author’s name or altering the work. It was also common for amateurs to publish scrapbooks created from clippings of mass-produced reading materials (Garvey, 2006a: 160, 164). These practices highlight the diversity of ideas about authorship and attribution that informed scrapbooking in the past, and which remain relevant to debates about social media and the ethics of ‘posting’, ‘retweeting’ or ‘curating’ online content created or discovered by others (see www.curatorscode.org).…”

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From scrapbook to Facebook: A history of personal media assemblage and archives

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New Media & Society

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This study surveys recent research on print-era scrapbooks and contemporary social media to highlight commonalities between the two formats, both in terms of the practices they have historically promoted for users, and the methodological challenges they produce for researchers. It argues that scrapbooks and social media can be conceptualized as sites of personal media assemblage and personal media archives, a designation that highlights the simultaneously social and archival dimensions of each form. After discussing these formal similarities, the author identifies three shared functions: (1) documenting friendship, (2) navigating new media abundance, and (3) communicating taste and building cultural capital. By drawing functional and formal parallels between the two media, the goal is to observe how these 'old' and 'new' technologies might mutually shed light on each other's neglected social and archival dimensions, offering scholars a wider range of angles from which to approach them as cultural and biographical texts.

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From scrapbook to Facebook: A history of personal media assemblage and archives

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“…Although much of the research on nineteenth‐century reader‐compiled texts focuses on female selectors, men also kept hybrid commonplace‐scrapbooks especially in the period before and surrounding the Civil War Ellen Gruber Garvey. finds a truly poignant form of editorial sampling in a memorial scrapbook compiled by a father as a prolonged act of mourning for his son who died at Kelley's Ford in 1863.…”

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