Collecting UK digital comics: social, cultural and technological factors for cultural institutions

这项研究将集中在内容政策和影响文化机构在收集、建立和提供英国数字漫画收藏方面所采取的决定的问题上。我的研究将探索技术挑战，以及更广泛的社会和文化因素，这些因素影响着图书馆决定收藏什么，如何建立藏品，然后提供藏品。这项研究将确定影响图书馆如何制定英国数字漫画收藏政策的技术、文化和社会因素。我的研究将从考察英国数字漫画的形式和内容开始，并确定当代环境中不同类型的数字漫画。这将包括研究数字漫画和网络漫画的定义，并考虑到数字漫画之间的差异。这项研究将分析形式和特征如何与主题相互作用和影响，这如何反映社会和文化变化，以及探索不同文化机构的实践，包括如何解决数字漫画内容提出的伦理问题。这将涉及到在机构内发现收集数字漫画的策略和理由。研究将与数字漫画的创作者和出版商以及收集机构和读者进行接触。目的：了解影响英国数字漫画收藏政策的技术、文化和社会因素目前和未来的作用。

The research will focus on content policy and the questions that shape the decisions taken by cultural institutions in collecting, building and making UK digital comics collections available. My research will explore the technological challenges, as well as the wider social and cultural factors that influence what libraries decide to collect, how collections are built and then made available. The research will establish the technical, cultural and social factors that influence how libraries can develop collection policy for UK digital comics.My research will begin by examining the form and content of UK digital comics, and identify the different types of digital comics in the contemporary environment. This will include conducting research into definitions for digital and web comics, taking into account the differences between digital comics.The research will analyse how form and features interact with and influence subject matter, and how this reflects social and cultural change as well as exploring practice across difference cultural institutions, including how ethical questions raised by the content of digital comics are resolved. This will involve discovering strategies and rationales for collecting digital comics within institutions.The research will engage with digital comics creators and publishers, as well as with collecting institutions and readers. Aim: to understand the current and future role of technical, cultural and social factors that influence collection policy for digital comics in the UK.