Rogue Archives

Digital Cultural Memory and Media Fandom

Bibliographic Data

ID20301032
AuthorsKent A Ono (0009-0000-8313-5303, University of Utah, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume67
Issue5
PagesE9-E11
Publication date2017-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeREVIEW
Review ofRogue Archives: Digital Cultural Memory and Media Fandom, Abigail De Kosnik, 2016
VenueJournal of Communication (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0021-9916 • E-ISSN: 1460-2466
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/jcom.12330
OpenAlexW2755164734
LanguageEN
References cited3

Digital communication has changed society’s collective knowledge. What we know, and what we preserve of what we know, is no longer stored primarily and dependably on paper. While vast repositories of information now exist digitally, as Abigail De Kosnik tells us in Rogue Archives: Digital Cultural Memory and Media Fandom, these “archives” of knowledge are fragile nonetheless. Generational revolutions in digital platforms, such as PDFs and jpegs, for example, mean the image you see today may not appear the same tomorrow, if it is accessible at all. De Kosnik’s main point is that, without artisanal fan archivists, who do the “immaterial labor” of actively collecting, organizing, and upkeeping archives and the technologies to create and maintain them and who are often not professionally trained—but who are simultaneously collectors of information, social “actants,” and producers coordinating with volunteer contributors—much of the archival work we find in digital culture would not even exist

Cultural memory · Digital culture · Digital media · Fandom · Media studies · Point (geometry) · Social media · Sociology · World Wide Web · Anthropology · Computer Science · Water Governance and Infrastructure

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