Scribbled hastily in pencil’
The mediation of World War I Unit War Diaries
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12904636 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Debra Ramsay (0000-0002-7500-7755, University of Exeter, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 100-116 |
| Publication date | 2021-08-02 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Media War & Conflict (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1750-6352 • E-ISSN: 1750-6360 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/17506352211033210 |
| OpenAlex | W3192261951 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 20 |
In World War I, the British Army implemented daily record keeping throughout its organization. Despite being crucial to the army’s operational effectiveness and essential for historiography, the history of Unit War Diaries as mediated artefacts has been largely overlooked. This article investigates the interplay of culture, institutional practices and hitherto unnoticed technologies of writing involved in the mediation of operational record keeping. It reveals Unit War Diaries as not just containers or conduits in the army’s practices of Information Management but as the nexus of tensions between bureaucracy, technologies and individuals that have shaped the understanding of warfare
Bureaucracy · Historiography · Mediation · Military history · Nexus (standard · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Unit (ring theory · Engineering · History · Law · Military History and Strategy · Psychology · Visual Culture and Art Theory · World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact
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| Highly cited | No |
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