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internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org wrote:

🌐 Websites vanish. 📰 News archives go offline. 📚 Textbooks are withdrawn. 🏛️ Government reports are deleted.

What happens when the historical record starts disappearing?

The Internet Archive and the Our Future Memory movement explore why "vanishing culture" is becoming a political crisis in THE POLITICAL THREATS OF VANISHING CULTURE AND THE NEED TO PROTECT OUR FUTURE MEMORY.

📖 Read or download the paper here ⬇️
https://journals.library.wustl.edu/pollib/article/id/9287/

#VanishingCulture #memoryhole

Teal graphic quoting Michael Menna and Lila Bailey, in The Political Librarian, with the quote "When these organizations can no longer collect and provide access to digital materials, members of the public cannot place their trust in a stable record—which affects their ability to confidently participate in democratic discourse."