Today, one speaks of a memory boom, with new media serving as carriers of all forms of memory and changing the very act of recalling, remembering and (re)collecting.
As ‘everyone’ participates in producing multitudes of narratives, what kind of source material constitutes folklore archives?
The project investigates strategies to engage new generations in documenting cultural citizenship in their own time and age.
The research will center on the Norwegian Folklore Archives, exploring
- how people access and interact with historical documents on social media
- how new models of participation and digital tools may engage especially young people in exploring and documenting everyday life.