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Rogue Archives: Digital Cultural Memory and Media Fandom (MIT Press)

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An examination of how nonprofessional archivists, especially media fans, practice cultural preservation on the Web and how “digital cultural memory” differs radically from print-era archiving.

The task of archiving used to be once entrusted only to museums, libraries, and other institutions that acted as repositories of culture in material form. But with the upward push of digital networked media, a multitude of self-designated archivists — fans, pirates, hackers — have transform practitioners of cultural preservation on the Web. These nonprofessional archivists have democratized cultural memory, building freely accessible online archives of no matter what content they imagine suitable for digital preservation. In Rogue Archives, Abigail De Kosnik examines the practice of archiving in the transition from print to digital media, taking a look in particular at Web fan fiction archives.

De Kosnik explains that media users as of late regard all of mass culture as an archive, from which they may be able to redeploy content for their own creations. Hence, “remix culture” and fan fiction are core genres of digital cultural production. De Kosnik explores, among other things, the anticanonical archiving styles of Web preservationists; the volunteer labor of online archiving; how fan archives serve women and queer users as cultural resources; archivists’ efforts to draw racially and sexually diverse content; and how digital archives adhere to the logics of performance more than the logics of print. She also considers the similarities and differences among free culture, free software, and fan communities, and uses digital humanities tools to quantify and visualize the size, user base, and rate of growth of several online fan archives.

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