What’s at stake in claims of “post-racial” media?
Mary Beltran / University of Wisconsin – Madison
Mary Beltran examines the implications of a “post-race” media climate.
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“Mechanisms for non-elite voices:” Mass-Observation and Twitter
Pamela Ingleton / McMaster University
A look at Twitter’s placement in the Library of Congress within historical perspective.
Read moreCaching and Crashing the Médiathèque
Mél Hogan / Concordia University
Mel Hogan investigates the politics of archiving video art.
Read moreWhat’re youse lookin’ at, Meathead?: Locating Archie Bunker Across Archives
Kimberly Springer / Williams College
Kimberly Springer looks at how America’s “most lovable bigot”, Archie Bunker, lives through the archives.
Read more A Walter Ong Artifact Travels Through Media, Time, and Meaning
Abigail Lambke / Saint Louis University
Moving through oral and written, artifact and archive at the Walter J. Ong archive at Saint Louis University.
Read moreBeyond Netflix and TiVo: Rethinking HBO Through the Archive
Shayne Pepper / North Carolina State University
In order to properly study HBO, we need to visit the archive to make sense of its early original programming lineup.
Read moreThe Views of the Feminist Archive
Alexandra Juhasz / Pitzer College
The video collection from the Los Angeles Woman’s Building offers a glimpse into a feminist archive in process.
Read moreA Case for Imperfection: Confessions of a Digital Restoration Artist
Pauline Stakelon / University of California – Santa Barbara
A digital archivist grapples with the dilemma of handling technological artifacts evident in the kinescope recordings of The Goldbergs.
Read moreInfernal Archive: Medial States of Matter in the Netherlands Institue for Sound and Vision
Shannon Mattern / The New School
Examining the place of the archive at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
Read moreHusker, Huckster: The Archival Brando
Lisa Patti / Cornell University
A discussion of the restoration, for commercial ends, of the classical Brando as the dominant image of the once-fallen star in contemporary culture.
Read moreSpecial Issue: The Archive
In this special issue we sought to examine not only the media present, but the past and the past’s place in the present.
Read moreBranding Romania II, or, the End of Choice
Anikó Imre and Alice Bardan / University of Southern California
An examination of media uses and effects on branding Romania as a tourist destination.
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