Abigail De Kosnik
Biographic Data
| ID | 4585824 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Abigail De Kosnik |
| GIVEN NAMES | Abigail |
| FAMILY NAME | De Kosnik |
| SIGNATURE | DE KOSNIK A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Schlumberger (Ireland) |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Trans Memory as Transmedia Activism
Piracy Is the Future of Culture: Speculating about Media Preservation after Collapse
Current conditions of global climate change, fossil fuel exhaustion, economic precarity, and political unrest may be indicators that modern industrialised society is on the verge of Collapse. What will happen to digital and digitised media – files of images, text, films, television series, audio recordings, video games, and so on – in the event of Collapse? The author argues that individuals who exchange such files online via peer-to-peer protoco…
Fans of color, fandoms of color
Editorial for guest-edited issue, "Fans of Color, Fandoms of Color," Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 29 (March 15, 2019
Memory, Archive, and History in Political Fan Fiction
Filipinos’ forced fandom of US media
This chapter focuses on Graham Murdock&s;s discussion of "cultural citizenship" to frame Filipinos&s; protests in fall 2007 as a plea for better representation in the US cultural sphere. In fall 2007, two popular US television programs, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on Comedy Central and Desperate Housewives on ABC, each aired an episode that contained a punch line about Filipinos. The chapter argues that forced fandom can serve as a useful con…
Perfect Covers: Filipino Musical Mimicry and Transmedia Performance
In this essay, the author connects the stereotype of Filipinos as musical mimics to the Philippines's history of colonization by Spain and the United States and argues that in the twenty-first century, Filipino performers are successfully using the Internet to transmediate their imitative skills to the global marketplace. Filipino singers have been periodically discovered and hired by U.S. producers through their YouTube “auditions,” which showed…
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 as repositories of culture in material form. But with the rise of digital networked media, a multitude of self-designated archivists—fans, pirates, h…
Disrupting Technological Privilege: The 2013–14 San Francisco Google bus protests
The Silicon Valley 'tech boom' has led to large-scale gentrification in San Francisco, and mass evictions of longtime residents in favor of tech workers. From December 2013 to April 2014, a group of protesters called 'Heart of the City' staged several blockades of the free buses that ferry tech employees from San Francisco to the corporate campuses of Google, Apple, Yahoo, and other technology firms every weekday. In this paper, I argue that thes…
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 as repositories of culture in material form. But with the rise of digital networked media, a multitude of self-designated archivists—fans, pirates, h…
Fans of color, fandoms of color
Editorial for guest-edited issue, "Fans of Color, Fandoms of Color," Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 29 (March 15, 2019
Perfect Covers: Filipino Musical Mimicry and Transmedia Performance
In this essay, the author connects the stereotype of Filipinos as musical mimics to the Philippines's history of colonization by Spain and the United States and argues that in the twenty-first century, Filipino performers are successfully using the Internet to transmediate their imitative skills to the global marketplace. Filipino singers have been periodically discovered and hired by U.S. producers through their YouTube “auditions,” which showed…
Disrupting Technological Privilege: The 2013–14 San Francisco Google bus protests
The Silicon Valley 'tech boom' has led to large-scale gentrification in San Francisco, and mass evictions of longtime residents in favor of tech workers. From December 2013 to April 2014, a group of protesters called 'Heart of the City' staged several blockades of the free buses that ferry tech employees from San Francisco to the corporate campuses of Google, Apple, Yahoo, and other technology firms every weekday. In this paper, I argue that thes…
Piracy Is the Future of Culture: Speculating about Media Preservation after Collapse
Current conditions of global climate change, fossil fuel exhaustion, economic precarity, and political unrest may be indicators that modern industrialised society is on the verge of Collapse. What will happen to digital and digitised media – files of images, text, films, television series, audio recordings, video games, and so on – in the event of Collapse? The author argues that individuals who exchange such files online via peer-to-peer protoco…
Disrupting Technological Privilege: The 2013–14 San Francisco Google bus protests
The Silicon Valley 'tech boom' has led to large-scale gentrification in San Francisco, and mass evictions of longtime residents in favor of tech workers. From December 2013 to April 2014, a group of protesters called 'Heart of the City' staged several blockades of the free buses that ferry tech employees from San Francisco to the corporate campuses of Google, Apple, Yahoo, and other technology firms every weekday. In this paper, I argue that thes…
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 as repositories of culture in material form. But with the rise of digital networked media, a multitude of self-designated archivists—fans, pirates, h…
Filipinos’ forced fandom of US media
This chapter focuses on Graham Murdock&s;s discussion of "cultural citizenship" to frame Filipinos&s; protests in fall 2007 as a plea for better representation in the US cultural sphere. In fall 2007, two popular US television programs, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on Comedy Central and Desperate Housewives on ABC, each aired an episode that contained a punch line about Filipinos. The chapter argues that forced fandom can serve as a useful con…
Perfect Covers: Filipino Musical Mimicry and Transmedia Performance
In this essay, the author connects the stereotype of Filipinos as musical mimics to the Philippines's history of colonization by Spain and the United States and argues that in the twenty-first century, Filipino performers are successfully using the Internet to transmediate their imitative skills to the global marketplace. Filipino singers have been periodically discovered and hired by U.S. producers through their YouTube “auditions,” which showed…
Memory, Archive, and History in Political Fan Fiction
Piracy Is the Future of Culture: Speculating about Media Preservation after Collapse
Current conditions of global climate change, fossil fuel exhaustion, economic precarity, and political unrest may be indicators that modern industrialised society is on the verge of Collapse. What will happen to digital and digitised media – files of images, text, films, television series, audio recordings, video games, and so on – in the event of Collapse? The author argues that individuals who exchange such files online via peer-to-peer protoco…
Fans of color, fandoms of color
Editorial for guest-edited issue, "Fans of Color, Fandoms of Color," Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 29 (March 15, 2019
Trans Memory as Transmedia Activism
Art (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (5 works) · History (5 works) · Media studies (5 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Business (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Cultural memory (2 works) · Fandom (2 works)