11.14 – Special Issue: The Archive

“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.

Mel Hogan investigates the politics of archiving video art.

Kimberly Springer looks at how America’s “most lovable bigot”, Archie Bunker, lives through the archives.

Moving through oral and written, artifact and archive at the Walter J. Ong archive at Saint Louis University.

In order to properly study HBO, we need to visit the archive to make sense of its early original programming lineup.

The video collection from the Los Angeles Woman’s Building offers a glimpse into a feminist archive in process.

A digital archivist grapples with the dilemma of handling technological artifacts evident in the kinescope recordings of The Goldbergs.

Examining the place of the archive at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision

A discussion of the restoration, for commercial ends, of the classical Brando as the dominant image of the once-fallen star in contemporary culture.

In this special issue we sought to examine not only the media present, but the past and the past’s place in the present.