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2018 · Fairfax, Virginia

Preservation, Curation, and Researching in the Archives

Session D.13 · Panel · JC-239

RoleName as printedAffiliation as printedPaper
Presenter John Walter Preserving Digital Scholarship: Variable Media Questionnaire Case Studies
Presenter Ian Golding Unseen Anxieties: Uncovering Technology Tensions in a Hidden Archive
Presenter Lee Hibbard Feminist Archiving as Phronesis: Archive of Our Own and Creating Space for Interactive Digital Curation
Presenter Madison Jewell Contemporary scholarship in writing studies has consid ered social media from various angles, including how it may be incorporated into the classroom and academia in general. This panel seeks to continue discussions of how social media serve as a viable and robust site for culti vating meaning and identification though practitioner and student research. This panel discusses preservation, curation, and the boundaries of digital archiving and curation processes. John Walter uses the Variable Media Questionnaire, a preservation heuristic developed by the Guggenheim and the Langlois Foundation for ephemeral and multimodal art; Ian Golding reexamines the history of technology within the 1990s composition class through a previously undiscovered cache of twenty year-old writing student portfolios; and Lee Hibbard describes feminist archiving as phronetic process, highlighting the work of the website Archive of Our Own (AO3). 3D Printing and the Importance of STEM and Humanities Collaboration in Utilizing Emerging Technological Capabilities
Presenter Wright State University Contemporary scholarship in writing studies has consid ered social media from various angles, including how it may be incorporated into the classroom and academia in general. This panel seeks to continue discussions of how social media serve as a viable and robust site for culti vating meaning and identification though practitioner and student research. This panel discusses preservation, curation, and the boundaries of digital archiving and curation processes. John Walter uses the Variable Media Questionnaire, a preservation heuristic developed by the Guggenheim and the Langlois Foundation for ephemeral and multimodal art; Ian Golding reexamines the history of technology within the 1990s composition class through a previously undiscovered cache of twenty year-old writing student portfolios; and Lee Hibbard describes feminist archiving as phronetic process, highlighting the work of the website Archive of Our Own (AO3). 3D Printing and the Importance of STEM and Humanities Collaboration in Utilizing Emerging Technological Capabilities
Presenter Haley Shea Barfield Exploring the Ethical Concerns of Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) and Transhumanism: A Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Webgame
Presenter University of North Georgia Exploring the Ethical Concerns of Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) and Transhumanism: A Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Webgame

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Cite as: Computers and Writing Conference. “Preservation, Curation, and Researching in the Archives.” 2018 Conference Program, Fairfax, Virginia, session D.13. Via Computers and Writing Program Reader, November 03, 2026.