
Ted Nelson's Evolutionary List File and Information Management
In 1965, Ted Nelson theorized the Evolutionary List File and offered clear insights into the relationship between technology and creativity that are still relevant today.
In 1965, Ted Nelson theorized the Evolutionary List File and offered clear insights into the relationship between technology and creativity that are still relevant today.
By collecting and categorizing historical artifacts, archives deeply influence the historical record. But they exist in complicated institutional settings, and archivists can't always have full control over how their archives present history. Researchers have to consider the archive less as a neutral place and more as a motivated and rhetorical construction.
New media are better defined as media that challenge our existing conceptions of technology... even if the new media in question might be old.
My research on the Williams-Nichols Archive of LGBTQ materials, published in the academic peer-reviewed journal Rhetoric Review.