Figure 20.7: Taking the Drug Test, 2015, Amazon Fulfillment Center (DFW6), Coppell, Texas. Source: xtine burrough
Figure 20.8: Cardboard cubicles for an installation of the vigil first exhibited at the International Digital Media and Art (iDMAa) conference in October, 2016. Source: xtine burrough
Figure 20.9: A mid-shot of the installation, International Digital Media and Arts Association (iDMAa) Annual Conference Exhibit, Winona, MN, October 2016. Source: xtine burrough
Figure 21.1: Collaging the digital remains of life online. Source: Sarah Schorr
Figure 21.2: Sarah Schorr applies a tattoo to a visitor’s skin during the exhibition opening at Galleri Image in Denmark. Source: Mikkel Kaldal, Courtesy of Galleri Image 2019.
Figure 21.3: Sarah Schorr invites participants to send photographs of their tattoos as they fade. These collected images are adapted and incorporated into the installation. Source: Sarah Schorr
Figure 21.4: An example of the screenshot of Unerasable Images, which is taken on 2017-02-22 at 9.38.26 p.m. Source: Winnie Soon
Figure 21.5: Nine selected images from Unerasable Images. Source: Winnie Soon.
Figure 21.6: Unerasable Images, 2018 HD Video. Source: Winnie Soon
Figure 22.1: Text and Image from my personal blog. Source: Doctor Daisy (Pignetti, 2007).
Figure 22.2: January 2010 photo of my brother in front of the empty lot at 5766 Cameron Blvd. With the physical referent of my house completely gone, so was the stability of a life lived in one place. Source: Daisy Pignetti
Figure 22.3: Screenshot taken March 3, 2010 (Pignetti, 2010). Source: Daisy Pignetti
Figure 22.4: The Author in Santorini, Greece. “Be a New Orleanian. wherever you are.” Source: Daisy Pignetti
Figure 25.1: “I’m also being studied by Carmel” Hebrew blog badge. Source: Carmel Vaisman
Figure 25.2: “Doctor Blog” design theme as designed by one of the teenage bloggers. Source: Carmel Vaisman
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Figure 25.3: “Miss Israblog” header on the official management blog. Source: Screenshot by Carmal Vaisman.
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Table 8.1: “Do-s and don’t-s of instagrammability” Source: Katrin Tiidenberg
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This book is a collaborative effort of all the contributors, who spent more than two years working together in Google docs to draft, critique, and revise their pieces. This is not an easy process and their persistence, patience, and willingness to be part of this experiment is remarkable. For this, we thank our fellow curators and co-authors: Andee Baker, Anette Grønning, Anna Shchetvina, Carmel L. Vaisman, Cathy Fowley, Craig Hamilton, Cristina Nuñez, Crystal Abidin, Daisy Pignetti, Jeff Thompson, Jessa Lingel, Katie Warfield, Kevin Driscoll, Maria Schreiber, Nadia Hakim-Fernández, Patricia Prieto-Blanco, Polina Kolozaridi, Priya C. Kumar, Ryan Milner, Sarah Raine, Sarah Schorr, Son Vivienne, Terri Senft, Tijana Hirsch, Tobias Raun, Whitney Phillips, xtine burrough, Winnie Soon.
Annette: Speaking from my own perspective on the project, I admit I enjoyed the creative process much more than the management required to bring this volume to fruition. I liked tinkering with the order of chapters, the titles of various sections, the wording of authors’ sentences. I cherished the gift of editing the other authors’ texts to build what we hope reads as a strong cohesion across the chapters. In this meandering and playful curating process, I cannot begin to express my deep appreciation for Katrin’s continuous work to keep the project moving toward completion. Without her alternately fierce and gentle pressure, I would still be tweaking and fussing with the details of each of the contribution. Katrin skillfully managed the personalities, the logistics, and me. She is a brilliant scholar and a ←xv | xvi→true pleasure to work with. I consider myself one of the lucky few who get to work with her.
Katrin: Annette is the bravest scholar I have ever worked with—a pioneer, an innovator, an inspiration. She has the inimitable capacity to propose just-shy-of-outrageous ideas as a legitimate plan and the charisma to mobilize people around those ideas. Working with her is a transformative experience, an adventure and a privilege. Without Annette, I would not have dared to ask our collaborators for the trust needed for, nor taken on the monumental task of closely editing and remixing nearly 30 chapters after they had already gone through a rigorous and creative process of co-creation. Yet this is what we did, and this is what our amazing collaborators allowed us to do. I am so grateful to have been a part of this book and to have had the chance to learn so much from co-editing it with Annette.
We also thank the editorial team at Peter Lang, the Digital Formations series editor Steve Jones, The Cultural Transformations Research Programme at Aarhus University for their wonderful writing retreats, and the community of AoIR, the Association of Internet Researchers, who made space for this work in various conferences along the way.
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Ways of Being in the Digital Age
annette n. markham
Between 1995 and 1997, I conducted an ethnographic study of people who considered themselves “heavy users” of the internet. Representing only a small slice of lived experience in the early digital age, my participants taught me to move, emote, and build my identities in their own worlds. It was a time when terms like Virtual Reality and Cyberspace
