Avery Dame Digital Dialogue
Digitization and online access are often presented as an important tool for making history, particularly those whose histories are rarely told, accessible to a [...]
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Mar 2017
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Mar 2017
The Transgender Usenet Archive
2016-17 Winnemore Digital Dissertation Fellow Avery Dame spent his fellowship year building the Transgender Usenet Archive, a public archive of posts from five targeted Usenet newsgroups which grew in popularity during the 1990’s upswing in online discussion forums, in this case around groups which were central to the development of a transgender community.
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Feb 2017
André Brock Digital Dialogue
A heartrending recent development of digital practice is the dissemination on social networks of videos of state violence against Black men and women, such [...]
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Jan 2017
Kishonna Gray Digital Dialogue
As racial projects, video games legitimize white masculinity and hegemonic ideology through the ‘othering’ process. This is performed via pixelated minstrelsy by depicting Black [...]
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Jan 2017
Archiving Usenet: Adopting an Ethics of Care
This is the fourth in series of blog posts by 2016-17 Winnemore Digital Dissertation Fellow Avery Dame on the progress of his dissertation, “Talk Amongst [...]
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Dec 2016
Listening for the Static
This is the third in series of blog posts by 2016-17 Winnemore Digital Dissertation Fellow Avery Dame on the progress of his dissertation, “Talk Amongst [...]
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Nov 2016
Visualizing Poster Activity on Usenet
This is the second in series of blog posts by 2016-17 Winnemore Digital Dissertation Fellow Avery Dame on the progress of his dissertation, “Talk Amongst [...]
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Nov 2016
Dana Williams and Kenton Rambsy Digital Dialogue
Patterns in literary scholarship suggest that serious considerations of a literary period do not fully begin until at least a generation after its emergence. [...]
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Nov 2016
Jim Casey and Sarah Patterson Digital Dialogue
Staking a claim in collaborative models of digital archiving, exhibition and geo-spatial visualization, Sarah Patterson and Jim Casey will introduce questions, concepts and outcomes [...]
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Oct 2016
A Block List Against Hate
Twitter User Identifiers Two weeks ago a group of students, scholars and activists gathered in the evening at MITH for an event called [...]