#DIYMethods23

2023-11-08

Let me share more #DIYMethods23 highlights, this time focusing on experiments with poetry. 3 zines in our proceedings (hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:) turn to poems to memorialize, interrogate, and/or react to research data... 🧵

2023-10-25

Over the next few weeks I'll be slowly posting some highlights from #DIYMethods23 -- our zine-based conference on experimental research methods.

I thought I'd start with a few of the most interactive and inventive formats in the proceedings this year, highlighting the ways that the forms research-exchange takes on can be really generative in the way we constitute arguments and demonstrate claims (when you don't have to fit your thoughts into a journal article, they can take new shapes) 🧵

katie mackinnonktmac@aoir.social
2023-09-28

This is my zine! Early Internet Memories is a reversible/two-sided zine for researchers and participants interested in internet histories. It includes a checklist for the archive promenade: a method of going through digital traces in web archives and reconstructing a platform's history.

It is part of the #DIYMethods23 conference! and more coming soon...

katiemackinnonxyz.files.wordpr

This is a screenshot from the Early Internet Memories zine. The title says, "Welcome to the Archive Promenade". Below that is a 90s graphic of someone on a computer. Text below says, "Have you ever wondered what happens to your data when a platform dies or is no longer popular? Have you ever tried to find an old account? Have you ever deleted a profile and regretted it?
2023-09-15

Some lovely #DIYMethods23 previews. We're assembling and shipping packages this week in our annual zine-based conference on experimental research methods. There are some real beauties!

A piece of newsprint with a map of a city on it. Readers are encouraged to cut and fold its contours.A pair of zines printed in vibrant riso ink, featuring illustrations of Ursula Le Guin, shopping bags, and sunsets. Smaller zines are tucked into the pockets of the larger onePrint copies of my zine Getting Into Fights with Data Centers. The blue and black riso inks turned out nice and understated.The zine Soft Data and Common Wares. The title is stitched onto the cover using a computer controlled embroidery machine, in floro orange thread and on a variety (clear plastic, white mesh) backgrounds
2023-07-05

This is coming along well!
Hope to have this published online next week, and slipped into the print run of #DIYMethods23

A blue/black zine cover page featuring an aerial photo of a data center. The text reads: How to Get Into Fights With Data Centers: Or, a Modest Proposal for Reframing the Climate Politics of ICT

Also: how to use ping and traceroute to find the location of data centers, and how to look for DRAMA, CONFLICT, and OPPORTUNITIES TO ORGANIZE WITH OTHERS wherever you find them

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