The zine anthology as archive: archival genres and practices

Lymn, Jessie

doi:10.1080/01576895.2013.769861

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“…A related discussion that the present study contributes to concerns the applicability of the metaphor of the archive to accentuate the preservational capacity of the Internet (see Bowker, 2005;Lymn, 2013). This extension of the concept of archive has been criticized by, among others, Ernst (2013) and Chun (2008), who find that the notion becomes generalized to the point where it loses meaningfulness.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 86%

Documenting virtual world cultures

Sköld

2015

Journal of Documentation

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore how virtual world communities employ new media as a repository to record information about their past. Design/methodology/approach – Using the notions of documentary practice and memory-making as a framework, a case study of MMORPG City of Heroes’ (CoH) virtual community on Reddit discussion board “/r/cityofheroes” was conducted. The study consists of an interpretative analysis of posts, comments, images, and other materials submitted to /r/cityofheroes during a period of approximately seven months. Findings – The principal finding of the study is that the CoH community, with varying levels of intentionality, documented a range of pasts on /r/cityofheroes, relating to CoH as a game world, a site of personal experience, a product, a nexus of narratives, and a game. The analysis also lays bare the community’s memory-making processes, in which the documented conceptions of CoH’s past were put to work in the present, informing community action and viewpoints. Originality/value – Games and gaming practices are increasingly prevalent in leisure and professional settings. This trend, which makes virtual environments and online media proxies for or augmentations of “real life”, makes it necessary for information scholars to understand how the full range of human information behaviours, including documenting, and memory-making, emerge or are replicated online. Additionally, few studies have examined the interplay between new media affordances, documentary practices, and memory-making in the context of virtual world communities.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 86%

Documenting virtual world cultures

Sköld

2015

Journal of Documentation

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“…And the audience itself can be a crucial access point. Lymn (2013) found that "how people acquire zines is often just as interesting and engaging as what is in the zine itself. The acquisition highlights the materiality not just of the object but of the engagement" (p. 46).…”

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“…The documentary voice in zines is personal and participatory, lending a more holistic explanation of issues than a bystander's news report (Atton, 2001;Dodge, 1995). Because zines exist outside of the mainstream, they provide testimony of sub-and countercultures (Ardito, 1999;Lymn, 2013;Wooten, 2012) as well as progressive political attitudes and thought (Congdon & Blandy, 2005;Kucsma, 2002). Zines inscribe marginalized perspectives, sometimes controversial ones (Congdon & Blandy, 2005;Duncombe, 1997;Gisonny & Freedman, 2006;Gomez, 2007;Koh, 2008;Kucsma, 2002;Morgan & Dawson, 2010;Sellie, 2006).…”

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RDA and the Description of Zines: Metadata Needs for Alternative Publications

O'Dell

2014

Journal of Library Metadata

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Comparison of zine user needs, known problems in zine description, and established best practices to Resource Description and Access (RDA) reveals RDA's applicability for describing alternative publications in library and nonlibrary contexts. Findings are that RDA is appropriate for describing alternative publications, though expansion and improvement is warranted in documenting makers, addressing intellectual property, approaching privacy concerns, facilitating subject and genre analysis, undertaking object cataloging, applying companion standards and external vocabularies, and using RDA where boundaries between work, expression, and manifestation are blurred. Experiments in the MARC and ZineCore formats suggest that a Linked Data model would aid RDA implementation.

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“…Other authors explore zines as alternative or underground literature and culture (Dodge 2008;Herrada and Aul 1995;Koh 2008), or provide other practical coverage like how to catalog them (Berman 2005;Carlton 2015; Freedman and Kauffman 2013; O'Dell 2014), digitization efforts (Chant 2015), resources (Brett 2010), and programming (Gómez 2007). Librarians being librarians, the literature also includes reviews, bibliographies, and literary criticism (Barack 2006;Finnell 2013;Lymn 2013;Sellie 2006).…”

Section: Zines In Lis Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

The Reach of a Long-Arm Stapler: Calling in Microaggressions in the LIS Field through Zine Work

Arroyo-Ramirez¹,

Chou²,

Freedman³

et al. 2018

Library Trends

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Since its inception in March 2014, the LIS Microaggressions project (www.lismicroaggressions.com) has grown as an online source and zine publication for library and information science (LIS) workers from marginalized communities to share their experiences with microaggressions in the workplace. This article will examine the project's efforts to move conversations on diversity, race, racism, and antiracism in the LIS field to transgressive and actionable steps. Through conference presentations, zine-making workshops, and distribution of zines at LIS conferences, the LIS Microaggressions collective wishes to "call in" or otherwise actively engage the LIS profession for critical reflection and analysis about microaggressions in the workplace with the ultimate goal of fostering support and a participatory community for library workers dealing with microaggressions.

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The zine anthology as archive: archival genres and practices

Cited by 8 publications

References 8 publications

Documenting virtual world cultures

Documenting virtual world cultures

RDA and the Description of Zines: Metadata Needs for Alternative Publications

The Reach of a Long-Arm Stapler: Calling in Microaggressions in the LIS Field through Zine Work

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