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Rogue Archives: Digital Cultural Memory and Media Fandom
The task of archiving was once entrusted only to museums, libraries, and other institutions that acted as repositories of culture in material form. But with the rise of digital networked media, a multitude of self-designated archivists -- fans, pirates, hackers -- have become practitioners of cultur... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
Rogue Archives: Digital Cultural Memory and Media Fandom
An examination of how nonprofessional archivists, especially media fans, practice cultural preservation on the Internet and how “digital cultural memory” differs radically from print-era archiving.The task of archiving was once entrusted only to museums, libraries, and other institutions that acted ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
#identity: Hashtagging Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Nation
Since its launch in 2006, Twitter has served as a major platform for political performance, social justice activism, and large-scale public debates over race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and nationality. It has empowered minoritarian groups to organize protests, articulate often-underrepresented p... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Techno-Orientalism
by Jinny Huh • Catherine Fung • Abigail De Kosnik • Seo-Young Chu • Dylan Yeats • Kathryn Allan • Julie Ha Tran • Aimee Bahng • Jason Crum • Tzarina T. Prater • Douglas S. Ishii • Greta A. Niu • Kenneth Hough • Betsy Huang • Se Young Kim • Warren Liu • Victor Bascara • David S. Roh • Steve Choe • Charles ParkWhat will the future look like? To judge from many speculative fiction films and books, from Blade Runner to Cloud Atlas, the future will be full of cities that resemble Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Shanghai, and it will be populated mainly by cold, unfeeling citizens who act like robots. Techno-Orientalis... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Unwatchable
by J. Hoberman • Jonathan Rosenbaum • Boris Groys • Susie Bright • Vivian Sobchack • W.J.T. Mitchell • Noel Carroll • Bill Nichols • Jonathan Crary • Stefano Harney • Jan Olsson • Barbara Hammer • B. Ruby Rich • Fred Moten • Mattias Frey • Abigail De Kosnik • E. Ann Kaplan • Jeffrey Sconce • Meghan Sutherland • Michael Boyce Gillespie • Christophe Wall-Romana • Jennifer Malkowski • Asbjørn Grønstad • Jack Halberstam • Jared Sexton • Rebecca Schneider • Frances Guerin • Peter Geimer • Alexandra Juhasz • Julian Hanich • Samuel England • Mauro Resmini • Katariina Kyrölä • Erika Balsom • Kenneth Berger • Alex Bush • Alec Butler • Mel Chen • Lynne Joyrich • Nathan Lee • Akira Lippit • Brandy Monk-Payton • Danielle Peers • Raul Perez • Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi • Philipp Stiasny • Bennet Togler • Leshu Torchin • Alok Vaid-Menon • Meir Wigoder • Emily Wills • Federico Windhausen • Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa • Genevieve Yue • Alenka Zupancic • Poulomi SahaWe all have images that we find unwatchable, whether for ethical, political, or sensory and affective reasons. From news coverage of terror attacks to viral videos of police brutality, and from graphic horror films to transgressive artworks, many of the images in our media culture might strike us as... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019