Event
Surviving Online: Computer Networking Histories and Queer Recordkeeping Practice
Wednesday, January 22, 2025 18:00to19:30
On January 22nd, at 6 PM ET on zoom, Dr. Kat Brewster will be presenting, "Surviving Online:Computer Networking Histories+Queer Recordkeeping Practice."
Long before the Wayback machine started trawling the web, people have been reckoning with the precarity of digital records in the face of technological obsolescence. This talk presents some computer networking records from the onset of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the United States and the role that computation played in shaping biomedical discourse, exchanging lifesaving information, and forging vital social bonds.
Dr. Kat Brewster is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Michigan School of Information. Her work focuses on how the internet gets remembered and who gets forgotten, with a specific focus on pre-1996 LGBTQ+ computer histories.
This event is also part of the , organized by Dr. Alex Ketchum.
Dr. Kat Brewster
Dr. Kat Brewster is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Michigan School of Information. Her work focuses on how the internet gets remembered and who gets forgotten, with a specific focus on pre-1996 LGBTQ+ computer histories.
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