Elizabeth Stainforth
Biographic Data
| ID | 1505613 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Stainforth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Stainforth |
| SIGNATURE | STAINFORTH E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2917-3522 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Disentangling Ownership in Digital Collecting Practices: Approaches From Across Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums
This article examines approaches to digital collecting across galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAMs) in order to scrutinize established norms regarding the ownership of collections. Challenges to collecting institutions have been particularly apparent in the context of digital heritage, which encompasses a range of activities including digitization, born-digital collecting, aggregation, and collecting from social media. Digital colle…
Learning to live: Anarcho-syndicalism and utopia in Spain, 1931–37
This article reassesses the debate around the meaning of ‘libertarian communism’ within the Spanish anarcho-syndicalist movement in the years prior to and during the Civil War. Drawing on recent historical and theoretical literature that argues for a non-pejorative and analytical understanding of utopia, it brings renewed attention to this aspect of Spanish anarcho-syndicalism. The article focuses on the proposals for a definition of libertarian …
Collective memory or the right to be forgotten? Cultures of digital memory and forgetting in the European Union
This article investigates cultures of digital memory and forgetting in the European Union. The article first gives some background to key debates in media memory studies, before going on to analyse the shaping of European Commission and European Union initiatives in relation to Google’s activities from the period 2004–present. The focus of inquiry for the discussion of memory is the Google Books project and Europeana, a database of digitized cult…
Excavating the Future: Utopia as a Method of Historical Analysis
This article explores the question of “excavating the future” and utopia’s potential to expand the modalities within which history has been written and thought. Here, utopia is positioned both as a lens through which to understand the growth of modern historical thinking and as a method for historical analysis. The first part of the article investigates the emergence of the temporal utopia in the modern period and its entanglement with history. T…
Computing Utopia: The Horizons of Computational Economies in History and Science Fiction
This article connects the recent flourishing of economic science fiction with the increasing technicity of contemporary financial markets, to pose questions about computational economies, both historical and fictional, and their ambiguous utopian currents. It explores examples of computational economies and societies in which economic resources are largely defined and allocated by computational systems to challenge—if not entirely dispel—assumpti…
Technologies of public culture: Heritage encounters with photography, television and the web
The operations through which cultural heritage institutions perform their civic and governmental roles have been identified with a logic of visual apprehension by writers such as Tony Bennett. This article explores how these institutions have ordered and regulated contact with their publics via a negotiation of different visual communication technologies, specifically, photography, television and the web. Through analysis of individual cases, it …
From museum to memory institution: The politics of European culture online
Museums, libraries and archives have long been considered the retainers of some form of collective memory. Within the last twenty years, the term ‘memory institution’ has been coined to describe these entities, which is symptomatic of the fact that such places are increasingly linked through digital media and online networks. The concept of the memory institution is also part of the vocabulary used to promote broader cultural integration across n…
Museums in the new mediascape: Transmedia, Participation, Ethics
"Museums in the new mediascape: transmedia, participation, ethics." International Journal of Heritage Studies, 23(5), pp. 488–489
The nature and value of cultural policy research for early career researchers
The last five years have seen an increase in the number of UK-based funding opportunities for early career researchers in cultural policy. The prioritisation of public engagement by the Arts and Hu
From museum to memory institution: The politics of European culture online
Museums, libraries and archives have long been considered the retainers of some form of collective memory. Within the last twenty years, the term ‘memory institution’ has been coined to describe these entities, which is symptomatic of the fact that such places are increasingly linked through digital media and online networks. The concept of the memory institution is also part of the vocabulary used to promote broader cultural integration across n…
Collective memory or the right to be forgotten? Cultures of digital memory and forgetting in the European Union
This article investigates cultures of digital memory and forgetting in the European Union. The article first gives some background to key debates in media memory studies, before going on to analyse the shaping of European Commission and European Union initiatives in relation to Google’s activities from the period 2004–present. The focus of inquiry for the discussion of memory is the Google Books project and Europeana, a database of digitized cult…
Learning to live: Anarcho-syndicalism and utopia in Spain, 1931–37
This article reassesses the debate around the meaning of ‘libertarian communism’ within the Spanish anarcho-syndicalist movement in the years prior to and during the Civil War. Drawing on recent historical and theoretical literature that argues for a non-pejorative and analytical understanding of utopia, it brings renewed attention to this aspect of Spanish anarcho-syndicalism. The article focuses on the proposals for a definition of libertarian …
The nature and value of cultural policy research for early career researchers
The last five years have seen an increase in the number of UK-based funding opportunities for early career researchers in cultural policy. The prioritisation of public engagement by the Arts and Hu
From museum to memory institution: The politics of European culture online
Museums, libraries and archives have long been considered the retainers of some form of collective memory. Within the last twenty years, the term ‘memory institution’ has been coined to describe these entities, which is symptomatic of the fact that such places are increasingly linked through digital media and online networks. The concept of the memory institution is also part of the vocabulary used to promote broader cultural integration across n…
Museums in the new mediascape: Transmedia, Participation, Ethics
"Museums in the new mediascape: transmedia, participation, ethics." International Journal of Heritage Studies, 23(5), pp. 488–489
Technologies of public culture: Heritage encounters with photography, television and the web
The operations through which cultural heritage institutions perform their civic and governmental roles have been identified with a logic of visual apprehension by writers such as Tony Bennett. This article explores how these institutions have ordered and regulated contact with their publics via a negotiation of different visual communication technologies, specifically, photography, television and the web. Through analysis of individual cases, it …
Computing Utopia: The Horizons of Computational Economies in History and Science Fiction
This article connects the recent flourishing of economic science fiction with the increasing technicity of contemporary financial markets, to pose questions about computational economies, both historical and fictional, and their ambiguous utopian currents. It explores examples of computational economies and societies in which economic resources are largely defined and allocated by computational systems to challenge—if not entirely dispel—assumpti…
Collective memory or the right to be forgotten? Cultures of digital memory and forgetting in the European Union
This article investigates cultures of digital memory and forgetting in the European Union. The article first gives some background to key debates in media memory studies, before going on to analyse the shaping of European Commission and European Union initiatives in relation to Google’s activities from the period 2004–present. The focus of inquiry for the discussion of memory is the Google Books project and Europeana, a database of digitized cult…
Excavating the Future: Utopia as a Method of Historical Analysis
This article explores the question of “excavating the future” and utopia’s potential to expand the modalities within which history has been written and thought. Here, utopia is positioned both as a lens through which to understand the growth of modern historical thinking and as a method for historical analysis. The first part of the article investigates the emergence of the temporal utopia in the modern period and its entanglement with history. T…
Learning to live: Anarcho-syndicalism and utopia in Spain, 1931–37
This article reassesses the debate around the meaning of ‘libertarian communism’ within the Spanish anarcho-syndicalist movement in the years prior to and during the Civil War. Drawing on recent historical and theoretical literature that argues for a non-pejorative and analytical understanding of utopia, it brings renewed attention to this aspect of Spanish anarcho-syndicalism. The article focuses on the proposals for a definition of libertarian …
Disentangling Ownership in Digital Collecting Practices: Approaches From Across Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums
This article examines approaches to digital collecting across galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAMs) in order to scrutinize established norms regarding the ownership of collections. Challenges to collecting institutions have been particularly apparent in the context of digital heritage, which encompasses a range of activities including digitization, born-digital collecting, aggregation, and collecting from social media. Digital colle…
Sociology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · History (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Museums and Cultural Heritage (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Politics (3 works)