Abigail de Kosnik’s Rogue Archives Reviewed in Pop Matters
Rogue Archives, a commentary on digital cultural memory and media fandom, by Abigail De Kosnik, an Assistant Professor at BCNM, was recently reviewed in Pop Matters.
Her book examines the culture of fan fiction in a digital realm, exploring the inequalities that can arise from participating in culture industries. De Kosnik scrutinizes what it means to archive today and how its purpose has become problematic because of media platforms.
From Pop Matters, “[De Kosnik] moves elegantly across disciplines (including oral history, design studies, performance studies, law, information science), always making connections and drawing analogies between them.”
Commenting on community interactions within the digital age, “De Kosnik explores the analogies between free culture, free software, and fan communities and celebrates copyleft, collaborative creativity, and versioning.”