In May 2019, a well-known archival commentator posted on Twitter a message that questioned how it was possible that a ‘dude’ that they did not know could suggest that we had come to ‘the end of archival ideas’ and dismiss all the work done by the current wave of archival scholars. That tweet was retweeted several dozens of times by their followers. It was referring to a book chapter written by Craig Gauld, Lecturer in Archives and Information Studies at the University of Dundee, entitled ‘The End of Archival Ideas?’, part of the book Archival Futures edited by Caroline Brown. The author of the original tweet (which has since then been deleted) admitted in a later comment that they had not read the work they were commenting about. Most of their followers clearly had not read it either (none of their comments suggested that they had) and liked or retweeted the tweet on the basis of its author’s assumed authority in the archival field. Some of them suggested many names of people who they thought were living proofs that the archival field is flourishing with new thinkers and new ‘ideas’. The problemwith those tweets is not whether or not the authors they listed had come up with new ‘ideas’, but the fact that they rashly condemned Gauld’s argument without having read his paper and tried to understand what he meant by it. In fact, what happened on Twitter in May/June 2019 is a typical illustration of what Gauld was lamenting about in his chapter. Quoting cultural historian Neal Gabler, Gauld wrote that:

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档案观念的终结？

2019 年 5 月，一位著名的档案评论员在 Twitter 上发布了一条消息，质疑一个他们不认识的“老兄”怎么可能暗示我们已经到了“档案想法的终结”并驳回了所有工作由当前的档案学者浪潮完成。这条推文被他们的粉丝转发了几十次。它指的是邓迪大学档案与信息研究讲师克雷格·高尔德 (Craig Gauld) 撰写的一本书章节，题为“档案理念的终结？”，这是卡罗琳·布朗编辑的《档案未来》一书的一部分。原始推文的作者（此后已被删除）在后来的评论中承认他们没有阅读他们评论的作品。他们的大多数追随者显然也没有读过它（他们的评论都没有表明他们读过）并且喜欢或转发了这条推文，这是基于作者在档案领域的假定权威。他们中的一些人提出了许多他们认为是档案领域正在蓬勃发展的新思想家和新“想法”的活生生的证据。这些推文的问题不在于他们列出的作者是否提出了新的“想法”，而在于他们在没有阅读他的论文并试图理解他的意思的情况下贸然谴责高尔德的论点。事实上，2019 年 5 月/6 月在 Twitter 上发生的事情就是 Gauld 在他的章节中哀叹的典型例证。Gauld 引用文化历史学家 Neal Gabler 的话说：