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The Editor and the Curator (Or the Context Analyst and the Media Synesthete)

In short, the concept of curation is being corrupted by the use of the term as a fancy synonym for ‘editing’ or ‘selecting’. After all, the act of curating is about preserving things, not cutting them away. [c/o Fimoculous]

Thu 08 Apr 2010 at 12:33   ·


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You are reading The Editor and the Curator (Or the Context Analyst and the Media Synesthete), a Microlog entry by MacDara Conroy. It is filed under Interesting, and was published in April 2010.

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