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Yours ever (well, maybe): studies and signposts in letter writing

机译：您曾经（好吧，也许）：写信中的研究和路标

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Electronic mail and other digital communications technologies seemingly threaten to end the era of handwritten and typed letters, now affectionately seen as part of snail mail. In this essay, I analyze a group of popular and scholarly studies about letter writing-including examples of pundits critiquing the use of e-mail, etiquette manuals advising why the handwritten letter still possesses value, historians and literary scholars studying the role of letters in the past and what it tells us about our present attitudes about digital communications technologies, and futurists predicting how we will function as personal archivists maintaining every document including e-mail. These are useful guideposts for archivists, providing both a sense of the present and the past in the role, value and nature of letters and their successors. They also provide insights into how such documents should be studied, expanding our gaze beyond the particular letters, to the tools used to create them and the traditions dictating their form and function. We also can discern a role for archivists, both for contributing to the literature about documents and in using these studies and commentaries, suggesting not a new disciplinary realm but opportunities for new interdisciplinary work. Examining a documentary form makes us more sensitive to both the innovations and traditions as it shifts from the analog to the digital; we can learn not to be caught up in hysteria or nostalgia about one form over another and archivists can learn about what they might expect in their labors to document society and its institutions. At one time, paper was part of an innovative technology, with roles very similar to the Internet and e-mail today. It may be that the shifts are far less revolutionary than is often assumed. Reading such works also suggests, finally, that archivists ought to rethink how they view their own knowledge and how it is constructed and used.
机译：电子邮件和其他数字通信技术似乎威胁着结束手写和打字字母的时代，现在亲切地将其视为蜗牛邮件的一部分。在本文中，我分析了一组有关信写作的流行和学术研究，包括批评电子邮件使用的专家例子，建议手写信为何仍具有价值的礼仪手册，历史学家和文学学者研究信在信中的作用。过去以及它告诉我们我们对数字通信技术的当前态度，而未来主义者则预测我们将如何充当个人档案管理员，维护包括电子邮件在内的每个文档。这些对于档案保管员是有用的指南，通过信件及其后继者的作用，价值和性质对现在和过去都有一定的了解。他们还提供了有关如何研究此类文档的见解，将我们的目光从特定的字母扩展到了用于创建它们的工具以及指示其形式和功能的传统。我们还可以辨别出档案工作者的作用，既可以为有关文献的文献做出贡献，也可以在使用这些研究和评论中发挥作用，这表明不是新的学科领域，而是新的跨学科工作的机会。检查纪录片形式使我们对创新和传统更加敏感，因为它已经从模拟转换为数字。我们可以学习不要陷入对一种形式的歇斯底里或怀旧之情，档案工作者可以了解他们在记录社会及其机构时可能期望的工作。一次，纸张是一项创新技术的一部分，其作用与当今的Internet和电子邮件非常相似。这种转变可能比通常所设想的革命性要少得多。最后，阅读此类作品还表明，档案管理员应该重新考虑他们如何看待自己的知识以及知识的构造和使用方式。

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