Tag: research
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Archiving Usenet: Adopting an Ethics of Care
(Cross-posted from the MITH blog.) “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.” Most folks have no doubt encountered this adage, coined in a 1993 New Yorker cartoon, through one of the many, many cultural riffs and references, or maybe in a reproduction of the original cartoon. The idea, of course, represents public perceptions about…
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Listening for the Static
(Cross-posted from the MITH blog.) As you can guess from my last post, I’ve been relying heavily on the Python email and mailbox modules (which inherits many functions from email) to process and analyse the Usenet collections. Instead of having to manually sift through each message, the parser identifies key information, logs it in a…
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Contextualizing the Usenet Archives
For my first detailed post about the Transgender Usenet Archive project, I wanted to provide a bit more background about online trans spaces during this time period and Usenet overall. While some of this information may already be familiar to some folks, hopefully, this post will also give some more context for the cultural moment the…
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“If it gets us talking, it can’t be bad:” Building the Transgender Usenet Archive
(Cross-posted from the MITH blog.) “If only one life is saved by the creation of this group, wouldn’t it be worth it? It’s only a communications medium, and people are needlessly losing their lives and wasting their potential in self-destructive, maladaptive, denial-bases coping strategies. The loss to our society is great, and needless…If it gets…