The user-generated interactive website New National Archives is a new method to view and
chart the relevant, unexplored issue of modern nationalism in a time of global migration and
blurred political and cultural borders. Disregarding outdated stereotypes of modern countries
and the traditional method of a select few accumulating a national archive, this website digs
deeper to find how real people view, visualize and define their national culture today.

 

Searching for specific keywords, New National Archives automatically generates its images from
Flickr and its text from Twitter, two of the largest virtual social phenomena of today, with a combined
user total of tens of millions worldwide. Further, it’s interactivity gives the user a chance to add his/her
voice by choosing keywords as well as saving images and text to the archive, ultimately creating real,
flexible and ever-changing national identities.

 

www.katesnowdesign.com/newnationalarchives