Suchergebnisse

Although the "virtual heritage" has become an important topic in scientific and political discussions, the possibility of writing history out of born digital sources has been neglected in historical research for many years. This is supported by the fact that there doesn't exist any systematic source theory for born digital sources. This paper wants to initiate a discussion on the theory and methodology of genuine digital sources by discussing the potentials and problems of digital source analyses. The paper furthermore reflects on the question, whether born digital sources need to be handled as a separate source category, or whether – so the hypothesis of the correalist source theo- ry - they don't differ from other sources in their material and documentary characteristics, but only in the visibility of their multidimensional, processual and multimodal elements which are inherent in every material source as well.

Since Luxembourg became independent in 1839, practically the entire political, economic and intellectual elite of the country has been socialised abroad. It was only in 2003 that the Grand Duchy set up its own university; before then, young Luxembourgers had to study in foreign countries. Over the past 150 years, Lux- embourg has thus experienced exceptionally lively student migration. This migration is almost unique in Europe; however, academic research has paid little attention to the consequences of the migration experience of whole student gen- erations on Luxembourgish society. The data presented in this paper demonstrate that migration has opened up chances for participation and access to positions of social power, while at the same time the networks of students became an instrument of social exclusion. Thus, the migration experience over the past 150 years not only led to a strong degree of social–cultural cohesion within the national elite; paradoxically, international student mobility has also had deep effects on the preservation of national identity.