This week we have two researchers to talk about web archiving, its politics, its goals, and how web archiving is often mobilized to address problems it really can’t help. We’re talking Tumblr and GeoCities, Twitter’s feared implosion, Internet Archive, and the space to mourn our platforms and communities.
Jessica’s social: https://twitter.com/jessogden
Katie’s social: https://twitter.com/ktcmackinnon; katiemackinnon.xyz
Readings
Media referenced
Jessica PhD thesis https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/447624/
Jessica’s publications: https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/jessica-ogden
Katie’s PhD: https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/handle/1807/125246
Katie’s publications: https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=zKGIFGEAAAAJ&hl=en
GeoCities Tumblr research project https://www.tumblr.com/oneterabyteofkilobyteage
Dead-and-dying platforms: a roundtable https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/24701475.2022.2071396
Baltimore Uprising; A Teen Epistolary https://www.activedistributionshop.org/shop/books/3963-the-2015-baltimore-uprising-a-teen-epistolary-by-various.html
130 - It’s bad news roundup, pardner 4
129 - Tumblr, Vtubers, and Ana Valens
128 - Invest in Open Infrastructure
127 - Book Bans at FVRL and Gary Wilson
126 - Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World (2016)
125 - FVRL and WPEA Union
124 - Bloch and Utopia feat. Jon
123 - David Demchuk
122 - Dr. Chuck Tingle
121 - Info Seeking Behaviors of Queer Folks feat. Audrey
120 - British Library Hack
119 - Privacy (and sex!) feat. Digital Shred Privacy Literacy Initiative
118 - Queer Internet History feat. Dr. Alex Ketchum
117 - Copyright and Trademark Takedowns
116 - Hijacked and Zombie Journals
115 - infoshops
114 - The Great Book Robbery (2012)
113 - Privacy Policies at RELX feat. Becky Yoose
112 - Day in the Life of Sadie
111 - Seizing the Means of Library Interoperability feat. Cory Doctorow
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