Katja Müller conducts research into digitization, museum studies, material culture and visual anthropology, as well as energy and environmental humanities. She is Heisenberg-Professor at Merseburg University of Applied Sciences.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroductionChapter 1. Theorizing Digital Archives: Power, Access and New OrderChapter 2. Deciding for Digital Archives: Improvement through Collection Management SystemsChapter 3. Community-Based Digital Archives: Programming AlternativesChapter 4. Creating and Curating Digital Archives: Horizontal and Vertical StructuresChapter 5. Using Digital Archives: Online Encounters, Stories of Impact and Postcolonial AgendasChapter 6. Digital Archives’ Objects: Law and TangibilityConclusion: Cultural Production in the Present with Reference to the Past and Directed at the FutureIndex

“This is an interesting and timely manuscript… It is highly original and is a welcome contribution to the growing body of scholarship on digital archives and community participation, covering aspects of memory, history, power and politics.” • Graeme Were, University of Bristol

Katja Müller conducts research into digitization, museum studies, material culture and visual anthropology, as well as energy and environmental humanities. She is Heisenberg-Professor at Merseburg University of Applied Sciences.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroductionChapter 1. Theorizing Digital Archives: Power, Access and New OrderChapter 2. Deciding for Digital Archives: Improvement through Collection Management SystemsChapter 3. Community-Based Digital Archives: Programming AlternativesChapter 4. Creating and Curating Digital Archives: Horizontal and Vertical StructuresChapter 5. Using Digital Archives: Online Encounters, Stories of Impact and Postcolonial AgendasChapter 6. Digital Archives’ Objects: Law and TangibilityConclusion: Cultural Production in the Present with Reference to the Past and Directed at the FutureIndex

“This is an interesting and timely manuscript… It is highly original and is a welcome contribution to the growing body of scholarship on digital archives and community participation, covering aspects of memory, history, power and politics.” • Graeme Were, University of Bristol

Katja Müller conducts research into digitization, museum studies, material culture and visual anthropology, as well as energy and environmental humanities. She is Heisenberg-Professor at Merseburg University of Applied Sciences.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroductionChapter 1. Theorizing Digital Archives: Power, Access and New OrderChapter 2. Deciding for Digital Archives: Improvement through Collection Management SystemsChapter 3. Community-Based Digital Archives: Programming AlternativesChapter 4. Creating and Curating Digital Archives: Horizontal and Vertical StructuresChapter 5. Using Digital Archives: Online Encounters, Stories of Impact and Postcolonial AgendasChapter 6. Digital Archives’ Objects: Law and TangibilityConclusion: Cultural Production in the Present with Reference to the Past and Directed at the FutureIndex

“This is an interesting and timely manuscript… It is highly original and is a welcome contribution to the growing body of scholarship on digital archives and community participation, covering aspects of memory, history, power and politics.” • Graeme Were, University of Bristol