Internet archiving is unique in as much as it inherently creates its own set of metadata. When collecting a physical document, it contains a set of information, both physical and contextual that could help, for example dating it. Another aspect
I washed my face and hands before I come, I did
Tags and different type of Internet paratext is something users are becoming more an dmore fluent in, however, different site structures might lend themselves to different uses of paratext. In a previous post, it was suggested that Archive of Our
The social life of bookmark tags
Paratext (on the Internet) has historically been used, not only for folksonomy, but for social functions, too. This is true for websites that have a broader range of social media-like features, such as comments, likes and private messages and for
[Survey] Content Management on Archive of Our Own
Carol Zhang, a second year Masters of Digital Arts and Humanities student at the University of British Columbia Okanagan is doing research on Archive of Our Own under the supervision of Dr. Jonathan Cinnamon. This research is specifically examining how
A comparison of trends in the same fandom, but on different platforms
Separate fandoms and even separate platforms will have their own trends when it comes to the type of content they create. The above quote compares fanfiction from the same fandom but on different platforms. A survey of the ‘Sherlock/John’ tag
Tumblrpocalypse Special, Part 9
Today’s scholarly reaction to the Tumblrpocalypse comes from Katherine E. Morrissey, who is an Assistant Professor at San Francisco State University. It’s from a Twitter thread, reposted with permission. “Some fans are using Tumblr’s new content restrictions as a call
If I had written an essay in 2006 about “the future of fandom,” I might have imagined a possible future that looked very much like AO3—except I would have considered it far out of reach. The idea that a community
fffinnagain: Lost Works and Posting Rates on fanfiction.net and Archive of Our Own Recently, I posted an analysis of these two large fanfiction archives using work numbers (nodes) to get a sense of how active they have been over the