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

• https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/24701475.2021.1985835 
  • PDF: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EEODs_kMMUj0vywKLZMf7aetgUcBdh1q/view?usp=sharing

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