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
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