Category: Historic Preservation
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Some Not-So-Good News I’ve Just Heard About on the Web: How An Online Cyberstalking Community Preserves Digital Artifacts
By Eugene Hlaing Faculty Mentor: Daniel Hubbard Abstract Since 2008, an online cyberstalking community called the Christorians began documenting the life of Christine Weston Chandler (AKA Chris Chan), an internet micro-celebrity, on a MediaWiki page called the CWCki (pronounced quick-ee). Over the last decade, this on-going archive has become an unintentional project to preserve digital…
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From the Land: an Experimental Approach to Ancient Ink Composition
By Luka Molloy Faculty Mentor: Dr. Christine Henry Abstract The archaeological study of tattooing is a fairly new area of research, becoming a serious academic pursuit over the past decade. The foci of projects have ranged in date, region, and purpose; most recently, many scholars have engaged in experimental archaeology to further our knowledge of…
