Essays about: "Mundaneum"

Found 1 essay containing the word Mundaneum.

  1. 1. The Mundaneum Imaginaries : A Media-Archaeological Study of the "Paper Google"

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för ABM

    Author : Lisa Sjögren; [2014]
    Keywords : Paul Otlet; Mundaneum; Google; Internet--History; Historiography; Storytelling; Google; berättande; marknadsföring; historiografi; informationsvetenskap; informationsteknik;

    Abstract : In this two year master’s thesis, using concepts borrowed from media archaeology, I examine the construction, content and function of the alternative historical narrative that is mediated through the partnership between Google and Belgian museum and archives centre the Mundaneum. This alternative narrative presents Belgian bibliographers Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine as having prefigured the Internet and as having created an analogue “paper Google. READ MORE