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AVERY DAME-GRIFF, Ph.D.
AVERY DAME-GRIFF, Ph.D.
Lecturer, Gonzaga University
 
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Announcing the Transgender Usenet Archive!

averydame 02/28/2017 02/28/2017research Usenet 0

I’m happy to announce that after almost a year of hard work, the Transgender Usenet Archive is now officially available for public use! You can search the archive for any single word or two word phrase, and searches can be filtered by newsgroup or post publication year. By default, all…

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Archiving Usenet: Adopting an Ethics of Care

averydame 01/23/2017 01/23/2017Uncategorized research, Usenet 0

(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…

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Listening for the Static

averydame 12/06/2016 04/07/2019Uncategorized research, Usenet 0

(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…

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Contextualizing the Usenet Archives

averydame 11/01/2016 11/01/2016research, Uncategorized research, Usenet 1

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…

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“If it gets us talking, it can’t be bad:” Building the Transgender Usenet Archive

averydame 10/19/2016 01/23/2017research research, Usenet 0

(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…

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