Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Collecting in the digital age / Christoph Zeller
  • Collecting : defining the subject / Johannes Endres
  • Collector as curator : collecting in the post-Internet age / Boris Groys
  • Should libraries still be charged with collecting in a digital environment? / Michael Knoche
  • Museums and collecting as/and media in the digital age / Peter M. McIsaac
  • Quality storage : collecting as a technique of reading / Nikolaus Wegmann
  • Phenomenology of memory in an age of big data / Clifford B. Anderson
  • Collecting the cultural memory of Palmyra / Erin L. Thompson
  • Conservation in the digital age / Jessica Walthew
  • Music and the limits of collectability / Rolf J. Goebel
  • Cat art and climate change : collecting in the data Anthropocene / Edward Dawson
  • Doomed to collect : dataveillance as inner logic of the Internet / Roberto Simanowski
  • Data collection in the age of surveillance capitalism / Douglas C. Schmidt.