I found my first article that I will use to enter and add to the conversation that I discuss in my upcoming research paper after stumbling upon an informal blog. I wasn’t quite set on what I intended to seek to answers with the help of experts in a certain field. What I had was a muddled question regarding something that would have to do with the preservation of history in the digital age.
I was unsure of any effects that the digital age has made, furthermore, I didn’t even know where to begin my quest for answers about the digital age. I simply google searched, “Affects of the internet in storing history” in hopes that that search would take me to interesting and applicable sources.
First, I thought to myself that it would probably be a beneficial idea to read a popular article before jumping into a more specialized article like one in the library tutorial– scholarly journals seem like down the road they could be very helpful in providing qualitative information, but I was after a Wikipedia-like description of some conversations that have been started to be offered in a very accessible way.
One of the first websites offered in after my Google search was a blog post in Vice. I skimmed over it and it referenced an expert in the field of data (I think….). I didn’t focus on that expert or the content of the very informal blog, instead I was interested in where these references could take me. I was hoping that it could lead me to a conversation that is of interest to me and of others that I could learn in efforts to conduct my research.
I found it incredibly easy to find a couple names that are experts in the field of the digital age in relation to history preservation. I became interested a book written my another expert in the field, Robert Hayes. I searched co-writer of the book and found that man research to be even more interesting that what I had previously found.
This finally got me to my first article which, in turn finalized the decision of what my question was to be on. “What are the effects of the preservation of art in the digital age?”
My first article is a scholarly article. I can tell because it is peer reviewed and has the characteristics of a scholarly article: the vocabulary, a short abstract, etc… The article is entitled “The Preservation of Art in the Digital Realm” by Tim Au Yeung, Sheelagh Carpendale and Saul Greenburg.
Although reading this article did not make me an expert in the art in the digital realm, it did allow for me to begin get ready to enter the conversation after learning about other perspectives from different experts in the field.
My research continues!! Until next time…