April 6: Discussion
Core
- (Watch, ~30 minutes) Carl Schlesinger and David Loeb Weiss, “Farewell etaoin shrdlu” (1978), external website
- Matthew Kirschenbaum, “Archives without Dust,” from Bitstreams: The Future of Digital Literary Heritage (2021), resource via library
- James A. Hodges and Ciaran B. Trace, “Preserving Algorithmic Systems: A Synthesis of Overlapping Approaches, Materialities and Contexts,” Journal of Documentation (2023), resource via library
Penumbra
- Library of Congress Format Blog posts:
- Kate Murray, Marcus Nappier, and Liz Holdzkom, “Fun with File Formats” (2021), external website
- Jacob Kowall and Hillary Szu Yin Shiue, “All Hyped Up for HyperCard: Further Adventures with an Apple Legacy Format” (2021), external website
- James A. Hodges, “Forensic Approaches to Evaluating Primary Sources in Internet History Research: Reconstructing Early Web-Based Archival Work (1989–1996)” (2021), resource via library
- Sarah Well, “The Forgotten History of the Blinking Curso▒” (2021), external website
- Sonya Donaldson, “The Ephemeral Archive: Unstable Terrain in Times and Sites of Discord” (2021), external website
- Ryan Cordell, “Material Cultures of the Digital” (2022), external website
- Klint Finley, “What We Can Learn from Vintage Computing” (2022), external website
- Marcin Wichary and Mihai Parparita, “Frame of Preference: A History of Mac Settings, 1984-2004” (2025), external resource
April 10: Media Archeology Lab
Guest Instructor: Travis Wagner, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign iSchool