... of ontological elements of the problematizations. Findings Participation is problematized based on the assumption that participatory agency risks jeopardizing the protection of heritage and leads to parts of the public memory being forgotten. To challenge the idea that participatory agency is destructive...

... different functions. The paper also wants to discuss how tattoos serve as a bank of memories and evidence on a living body; in this respect, the tattooed body can be viewed as an archive, which immortalises and symbolises the events and relationships an individual has experienced in his or her life...

...Olle Sköld Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore how virtual world communities employ new media as a repository to record information about their past. Design/methodology/approach – Using the notions of documentary practice and memory-making as a framework, a case study...

...David Bawden Geoffrey C.   Bowker . Memory Practices in the Sciences . Cambridge, MA : MIT Press   2006 . 261 pp. , ISBN: 0‐262‐02589‐2 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 --> Sciences Classification Memory Data structures Geoffrey Bowker...