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Join us in Harvill 460 for the College of Information Science Colloquium Series, featuring Amelia Acker, an Associate Professor in the School of Communication & Information at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
Day 2, Seminar
Brought to you by the Critical Archives & Curation Collaborative (co/lab)
Doctoral students are invited to attend this seminar with Dr. Acker to hear more about the research process behind her new book, Archiving Machines (2026, MIT Press). Dr. Acker will describe how she planned and carried out her fieldwork at the Media Archeology Lab at CU-Boulder, the Computer History Museum Archives and the Living Computers Museum + Lab, offering insights for early career researchers interested in incorporating fieldwork into their research design. Dr. Acker will also discuss the practical challenges of fieldwork and offer strategies for identifying funding sources to support travel to research sites.
About Amelia Acker
Amelia Acker is an associate professor in the School of Communication & Information at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Her research on data management and digital preservation has been supported with funding from the Institute for Museum and Library Services, the National Science Foundation, the Sloan Foundation, the Ford Foundation and the ACM History and Archiving Fellowship. Acker’s projects address the representation and loss of digital traces, the history of data management and the transmission of information through time. She investigates how infrastructure and organizational practices shape the preservation, accessibility and governance of data, with a particular focus on the impact of platforms, software and AI on archives and digital memory. Acker is the author of Archiving Machines: From Punch Cards to Platforms (MIT, 2025).
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