I attended Trevor Owens talk and found it more interesting than I had intended. At the beginning he was talking about all the thousands of different files, documents, pictures etc that was being stored and saved at the Library of Congress. He actually lost me there for a while when he was discussing all of the numbers and different types of files because it was hard for me to grasp the information. This class has been my first technology class so the numbers and the idea of a software program crawling websites was hard for me to grasp. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Whenever I thought about an archive, I honestly only thought of items like letters, books, interviews and pictures. I never thought that the Library of Congress saves modern information such as gifs, funny internet accounts, comics and stuff along those lines. I remember him pulling up some of the images they have saved and there was a cartoon block of cheese. Trevor described memes and internet culture as the \u201cfolk of our time\u201d. We have learned a lot about folklore this semester and Filene states that it embodies America\u2019s \u201cstrength through diversity\u201d(Filene, 133). I feel that that is the same now and the diversity scale is huge now compared to in the 1930s. Filene also states that \u201cMany people within the official culture began to train folk as part of a resilient cultural core, they hoped, would see the country through the depths of the depression\u2026\u201d(Filene 134). This is also true in modern day America. Gifs and memes are made to take something serious and turn it into a comedy. I feel like in years from now when memes are no more, people will look back on them and be able to tell a lot about how society was when they were created.
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