Document power
It's becoming harder and harder to ignore how documents exert influence on us—in politics, across society and in everyday life.
Examples are easy to find. A recent paper in the Journal of Documentation discussed how, in South Africa under Apartheid, documents were used to impose racial categories on individuals, which resonates with today's discussions a…
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