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- Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination Blog in support of my 2008 book from the MIT Press
- Play the Past Group blog on meaningful play and cultural heritage
- Track Changes Book Tumblr News and updates related to my book on the literary history of word processing
- Zone of Influence Game studies hobby blog (mostly tabletop)
By Me
- Am I a Digital Humanist? Confessions of a Neoliberal Tool A personal piece. (My backchannel.)
- An Executable Past: The Case for a National Software Registry In Preserving.exe: Toward a National Strategy for Preserving Software. Library of Congress (2013).
- Approaches to Managing and Collecting Born-Digital Literary Materials for Scholarly Use 12,000-word white paper from an NEH-funded project I directed
- Bookscapes: Modeling Books in Electronic Space HCIL short paper, 2008
- Choreographing the Dance of the Vampires Tom Clancy’s Red Storm Rising as Procedural Fiction
- Digital Forensics and Born-Digital Content in Cultural Heritage Collections A report published by CLIR.
- Digital Materiality: Preserving Access to Computers as Complete Environments Refereed paper from iPres 2009 proceedings
- Distant Mirrors and the LAMP MLA Presidential Forum, 2013
- Hello Worlds Why humanities students should learn to program
- History.exe Slate essay on preserving software history (2013)
- No Round Trip: Two New Primary Sources for AGRIPPA Essay describing recovery of lost vidoe footage and emulation of the original software
- Preserving Virtual Worlds Final Report Multi-authored project report.
- The .Txtual Condition Essay in DHQ special issue on The Literary
- The Book-Writing Machine Slate essay on the first novel written with a word processor (2013)
- What is "Digital Humanities" and Why are They Saying Such Terrible Things About It? Essay for differences special issue on In the Shadows of the Digital Humanities (2014)
- What is an @uthor? Essay in LA Review of Books
- What is Digital Humanities? Article that appeared in the Association of Departments of English Bulletin 150 (2010).
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- Digital Forensics and Cultural Heritage CNI Fall Membership Meeting, December 2010
- How Has Technology Changed Writing and Literature University of Colorado Boulder, 2012 (requires SilverLight)
- Plucking Fluxes: Media Archaeology of the Floppy Disk Media Archaelogy event at NYU, March 2013
- Software Studies as Preservation SoftWhere, UC San Diego, 2008
- Software, It's a Thing Keynote for Library of Congress the 2014 annual meeting of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program.
- The .txtual Condition Why Books? Radcliffe Institute, 2010 [starting ~37:00]
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Affiliations
- College of Information Studies Affiliate Faculty, University of Maryland
- Department of English Associate Professor of English, University of Maryland
- Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) Associate Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH)
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