Workshop by Dr Katie MacKinnon on Early Internet Memories


Workshop by Dr Katie MacKinnon on Early Internet Memories
February 26 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Have you ever wondered what happens to your data when a platform dies? Have you ever tried to find an old account? Have you ever deleted your website and regretted it?
In this workshop, participants will go on an archive promenade to search for their own forgotten or abandoned websites from the past 30 years in the Internet Archive Wayback Machine, following the process outlined in the EARLY INTERNET MEMORIES zine(https://katiemackinnonxyz.files.wordpress.com/2023/09/early-internet-memories-6.pdf).
For academics, an archive promenade is a participatory approach to web archival research that is committed to producing a history of online community with members of that community, for example, by gathering, curating, and annotating archival material and data collaboratively. This method can be used in research contexts, but also by individuals looking to explore their own internet histories, as it grapples with the politics of data afterlives and contends with the ways that data is entangled through affect, materiality and situatedness.