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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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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Oct 2016
“If it gets us talking, it can’t be bad:” Building the Transgender Usenet Archive
“If only one life is saved by the creation of this group, wouldn't it be worth it? It's only a communications medium, and people are [...]
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Oct 2016
MITH Welcomes Avery Dame as the 2016-17 Winnemore Fellow!
MITH is pleased to announce Avery Dame, doctoral candidate in the department of Women’s Studies at the University of Maryland, as the Winnemore Dissertation Fellow [...]