ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2022-present Assistant Professor, San José State University, School of Information
2020-2022 Bullard Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Texas at Austin, School of Information.
2017-2020 Part-Time Lecturer, Master of Information program. Rutgers University, School of Communication and Information.
2016-2020 Part-Time Lecturer, Minor in Digital Communication, Information, and Media. Rutgers University, School of Communication and Information.
2013-2016 Teaching Assistant, Department of Journalism and Media Studies. Rutgers University, School of Communication and Information.
EDUCATION
2020
Rutgers University. Ph.D., Communication and Information.
Dissertation: “Information technology, para-academic research culture, and ‘post-literary’ communication techniques: A Materialist cultural history of interdisciplinary computing (1950-2000)”
Committee: Marija Dalbello (Chair), Melissa Aronczyk, Nicholas J. Belkin, Matthew G. Kirschenbaum (Outside member)
2012
New York University. M.A. Media, Culture and Communication.
Thesis: “Reproducing Experience: Hardware Emulation, Software Copies, and Arcade Game Preservation.” Advisor: Lisa Gitelman.
2009
New York University. B.S. Media, Culture and Communication.
Awards
Good Systems Faculty Fellowship, School of Information, The University of Texas at Austin, 2022.
Junior Fellow, Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography at Rare Book School, University of Virginia, 2021-2023.
Outstanding Continuing Doctoral Student in Library and Information Science, School of Communication and Information, Rutgers University, 2020.
Outstanding Part-Time Lecturer in Library and Information Science, School of Communication and Information, Rutgers University, 2020.
MLIS & PhD Student Support Fund, Rutgers University, 2020.
Outstanding Continuing Doctoral Student in Interdisciplinary Studies, School of Communication and Information, Rutgers University, 2019.
Tefko Saracevic Endowed Fund for Doctoral Students, Rutgers University, 2019.
MLIS & PhD Student Support Fund, Rutgers University, 2019.
Graduate School Travel Award, Rutgers University, 2019.
Graduate School Travel Award, Rutgers University, 2017.
Digital Humanities Summer Institute Scholarship, University of Victoria, 2017.
Center for Software History Travel Subvention, Computer History Museum, 2017.
Graduate School Travel Award, Rutgers University, 2016.
Summer Research Award, School of Communication and Information, Rutgers University, 2016.
American Association of University Professors (AAUP) Teaching Assistant Professional Development Award, Rutgers University, 2015.
Graduate School Travel Award, Rutgers University, 2015.
Award for Academic Achievement in Concentration: Technology and Society, Department of Media, Culture and Communication, New York University, 2012.
Founder's Day Award, New York University, 2009.
PUBLICATIONS
PEER-REViEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES
Trace, C.B., and Hodges, J.A. (2023) “Algorithms in the Archive: Accountability, Materiality, and Methods.” Information, Communication, and Society.
Hodges, J.A., and Trace, C.B. (2023) “Preserving Algorithmic Systems: A Synthesis of Overlapping Approaches, Materialities, and Contexts.” Journal of Documentation.
Hodges, J.A. (2023) “Taxonomizing Information Practices in a Large Conspiracy Movement: Using Early QAnon as a Case Study.” Information & Culture.
Hodges, J.A. (2022) “Transcoding Authenticity: Preserving Unreleased Gaming Software Outside of Memory Institutions.” Journal of Documentation.
Hodges, J.A. (2021) “Forensically Reconstructing Biomedical Maintenance Labor: PDF Metadata Under the Epistemic Conditions of COVID-19.” Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST).
Hodges, J.A. (2020) “Forensic Approaches to Evaluating Primary Sources in Internet History Research: Reconstructing Early Web-based Archival Work (1989–1996).” Internet Histories, DOI: 10.1080/24701475.2020.1784539
Hodges, J.A. (2019) “Forensic Materiality and Technocratic Self-Regulation in the 1980s Software Cracking Scene.” IEEE Annals of Computer History, spec. issue on Governance in the History of Computing, (Gerardo Con Diaz, ed.).
Hodges, J.A. (2019) “Comparing Born-Digital Artifacts Using Bibliographic Archeology: A Survey of Timothy Leary’s Published Software (1985-1996).” Information Research, spec. issue on Archaeology and Information Research, (Huvila, I., Dalbello, M., Dallas, C., Faniel, I.M., & Olsson, M., eds.).
Hodges, J.A. (2017) “How Do I Hold This Thing? Controlling Reconstructed Q*Berts.” New Media and Society 19(10), spec. issue on Haptic Media Studies (David Parisi, Mark Paterson, and Jason Archer, eds.), 1581-1598.
Hodges, J.A. (2014) “Antagonism, Incorporated: Video Arcades and the Politics of Commercial Space,” Media Fields Journal 1(8).
Conference proceedings
Hodges, J.A., Chaiet, M, and Gupta, P. (November 2021) “Forensic Analysis of Memetic Image Propagation: Introducing the SMOC BRISQUEt Method.” American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T), 2021 Proceedings [long paper]. Salt Lake City, UT.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Hodges, J.A. (2022) “How To Collect a Corpus of Websites With a Web Crawler.” SAGE Research Methods: Doing Research Online, Morgan Currie, ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
Hodges, J.A. (2022) “Simulating Domestic Space in 1990s Technoculture: Timothy Leary’s Virtual Home Library.” Reading Home Cultures Through Books, (Kirsti Salmi-Niklander and Marija Dalbello, eds.). London, UK: Routledge.
Hodges, J.A. (2017) “Ecco the Dolphin.” 100 Greatest Video Games. Eds. Jaime Banks, Robert Mejia, and Aubrie Adams. New York, NY: Rowman & Littlefield.
Hodges, J.A. (2016) Introduction: “Analog Players, Analog Space: Video Gaming Beyond the Digital.” Analog Game Studies Volume 2. (James Hodges, Aaron Trammell, Evan Torner, and Emma Leigh Waldron, eds). Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie-Mellon ETC Press.
Hodges, J.A. (2016) “Currency: An Interview with Chris Wille and Brian Patrick Franklin.” Analog Game Studies Volume 2, (Aaron Trammell, Evan Torner, and Emma Leigh Waldron, eds). Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie-Mellon ETC Press.
BOOK REVIEWS
Hodges, J.A. (2023) [Review of the book Practices: Raving, by M. Wark]. Popular Music 42(2).
Hodges, J.A. (2021) [Review of the book Architects of Memory: Information and Rhetoric in a Networked Archival Age, by N.R. Johnson]. Information and Culture.
In preparation
Hodges, J.A. (In Preparation) Psychedelic Software: A Forensic History of Post-Literary Culture. Publisher TBA.
NON-PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
ONLINE ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
Hodges, J.A. (2023, April 13). Computational Preservation vs. Social Preservation: What do Algorithms Require? Center for Information Research and Innovation (CIRI) Blog. https://ischool.sjsu.edu/ciri-blog/computational-preservation-vs-social-preservation-what-do-algorithms-require
Hodges, J.A. (2021). “Note from the Senior Book Review Editor.” Information & Culture 56(3), 350. https://www.muse.jhu.edu/article/836139
Hodges, J.A. (2016, October) “MALWare Report #2: Timothy Leary’s Mind Mirror.” Boulder, CO: Media Archaeology Lab. Retrieved from: http://mediaarchaeologylab.com/technical-reports/
Hodges, J.A. (Summer 2015) “Retail Soundscapes and the Ambience of Commerce.” Sounding Out! Podcast #44. https://soundstudiesblog.com/2015/06/25/sounding-out-podcast-44-listening-to-americas-malls/
Hodges, J.A. (Summer 2016) Electronic Literature Directory: @ROM_TXT. Entry in Electronic Literature Organization’s E-Lit Directory. Available at http://directory.eliterature.org/individual-work/4668
Hodges, J.A. (2010, October) “Dossier: Sega Home Video Game Consoles.” Dead Media Archive.
MULTIMEDIA PROJECTS
Hodges, J.A. (2021) The Fred M. Bullard Papers: Highlights and Insights. Website collecting primary sources from the Fred M. Bullard Papers at Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin. https://sites.utexas.edu/bullard/
Hodges, J.A. (2016) Timothy Leary's Software and the dream of post-literal culture (1985-1996). Website collecting primary sources related to paper presented at 2016 Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing conference in Paris, FR. Available at http://scalar.usc.edu/works/timothy-leary-software/index
Hodges, J.A. (2016) Strategic Presentation. Website companion for undergraduate course fulfilling university-wide core curriculum’s information technology requirement. http://strategicpresentation.rutgers.edu
Hodges, J.A. (Summer 2016) Timothy Learybot. Automated Twitter account (@TimothyLearybot) using corpus of Timothy Leary’s writings to generate random aphorisms.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Hodges, J.A. (2015, April) “Meet the Hoarders of Dead Media.” Hopes and Fears.
Hodges, J.A. (2009, January) “Pranksters Forever: Political Graffiti and the Popular Concept of Rebellion”. Overspray Magazine. Vol. 1, issue 9.
Hodges, J.A. (2007, January) “Unmarketable,” Review of Unmarketable: Brandalism, Copyfighting, Mocketing, and the Erosion of Integrity. Overspray Magazine 1(5).
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Hodges, J.A. and Paprocki, R. (9 November, 2023) “Datafied Ocean Epistemologies: Reverse-Engineering Coastal Data Curation.” Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S), annual conference, Honolulu, HI.
Hodges, J.A. (2023, September 23) “Building Toward Expressive Computing: Counterculture and Computing Concepts, 1960-2000.” Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) Special Interest Group Computers, Information, and Society (SIGCIS), annual meeting. Online.
Hodges, J.A., and Trace, C.B. (2023, June 21) “Information Governance and Algorithmic Accountability.” Archives Educations and Research Institute (AERI), annual conference, Baton Rouge, LA.
Hodges, J.A. (2023, June 19) “Forensic Approaches to Reconstructing Non-Institutional Web Archival Practices.” Archives Educations and Research Institute (AERI), annual conference, Baton Rouge, LA.
Hodges, J.A. (2023, June 5) “Archived Web Source Code as Evidence in Computer History Research: A Case Study Concerning Digital Computing and Psychedelic Culture.” European Research infrastructure for the Study of Archived Web Materials (RESAW), 5th biennial conference. MUCEM Lab, National Museum of Civilizations of Europe and the Mediterranean, Marseille, FR.
Hodges. J.A. (2023, March 13-17) “Digital Evidence: Preservation and Analysis.” iSchools annual iConference, virtual academic program.
Hodges, J.A. (2022, May 26) “Global/Local Roundtable.” Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography, Annual Meeting. University of California-Los Angeles: Los Angeles, CA.
Hodges, J.A. (2022, April 2) “Lilly’s reverberations in Cyberspace.” Reconsidering John Lilly symposium, online.
Hodges, J.A. (2022, April 2) “From Mescaline to Magnetic Disks: A Genealogy of ‘Post-Literary’ Media Technologies, 1950-1990.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), annual conference. Chicago, IL.
Hodges, J.A. (2022, February 16) “Researchers and Emulation.” Preserving Born-Digital Cultural Heritage conference, Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI). Melbourne, AU.
Hodges, J.A., Chaiet, M, and Gupta, P. (2021, November 2) “Forensic Analysis of Memetic Image Propagation: Introducing the SMOC BRISQUEt Method.” American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T), annual conference. Salt Lake City, UT
Hodges, J.A. (2021, October 8) “Taxonomizing Conspiratorial Information Practices: Examining the Ong’s Hat Legend.” Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S), annual conference. Toronto, ON.
Hodges, J.A. (2021, September 23) “Psychological Software in Varied Environments: An Enumerative Approach to Historical Specificity.” Society for the History of Technology (SHOT), Special Interest Group Computers, Information, and Society (SIGCIS), annual meeting. Online.
Hodges, J.A. (2021, June 22) “Making Born-Digital Memories with Lossy File Formats: The Case of 1990s Gaming Culture.” International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF), annual congress. University of Helsinki: Helsinki, FI.
Hodges, J.A. (2021, June 18) “From Mainstream Development to Web-Based Margins: Chains of Interdependence in Unreleased Game Assets.” Research Infrastructure for the Study of Archived Web Materials (RESAW), fourth semiannual conference. University of Luxembourg: Esch-sur-Alzette, LU.
Hodges, J.A. (2021, March 17) “Reality Wars and Document Storytelling, From Ong’s Hat to QAnon.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), annual conference.
Hodges, J.A. (2020, October 22) “Forensically Reconstructing Biomedical Equipment Technicians’ Information Practices Using PDF Metadata: Toward a Conceptual Model of Layered Temporality.” American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) Special Interest Group on Conceptual Models (SIG-CM) workshop.
Hodges, J.A. (2020, June 18) “SHARP Coffeehouse on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” [roundtable guest speaker]. Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing: In Focus (presented remotely due to COVID-19 pandemic).
Hodges, J.A. (2020, accepted) “Discourses of Self-Actualization and Social Control in U.S. Institutional Surveillance Practices (1965-1972).” Surveillance Studies Network biannual conference. Erasmus University. Rotterdam, NL (cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic).
Hodges, J.A. (2020, accepted) “Conceptualizing Adaptive Audio Interfaces at Apple (1982-1990): The Power of Print to Represent Sound.” Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing annual conference. University of Amsterdam. Amsterdam, NL (cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic).
Hodges, J.A. (2020, accepted) “Conceptualizing Adaptive Audio Interfaces at Apple (1982-1990): The Power of Print to Represent Sound.” Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing annual conference. University of Amsterdam. Amsterdam, NL (cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic).
Hodges, J.A. (2019, September 7) “Tools for Unauthorized Trip Reporting as a Site of Innovation in Psychological Research (1963-1972).” Society for Social Studies of Science annual conference. New Orleans, LA.
Hodges, J.A. (2019, July 17). “Codifying the Californian Workstyle in Apple Computer Inc’s Print Culture (1983-1990).” Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing annual conference. University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Amherst, MA.
Hodges, J.A. (2019, June 21) “Forensically Reconstructing Non-Institutional Archival Practices in Timothy Leary’s Digital Archives (1989-1996).” Research Infrastructure for the Study of Archived Web Materials (RESAW), third semiannual conference. University of Amsterdam: Amsterdam, NL.
Hodges, J.A. (2018, October 11) “Forensic Materiality and Technocratic Governance Practices in the 1980s Software Cracking Scene.” Association of Internet Researchers, annual conference. Montreal, QC.
Hodges, J.A. (2018, April 28) “Toward a Genealogical Prehistory of Psychological Tracking and Manipulation Online (1965-1986).” Theorizing the Web, annual conference. Museum of the Moving Image: Queens, NY.
Hodges, J.A. (2017, October 27) “Push to React: Cold War Research Culture and Language Without Words as Found in the Experiential Typewriter.” Society for the History of Technology, annual meeting. Philadelphia, PA.
Hodges, James A. (2017, August 31) “Varied Sensibilities in Software Preservation: Demonstrating a Comparative Approach.” Society for Social Studies of Science annual conference. Boston, MA.
Hodges, J.A. (2017, July 13) “One Artifact, Many Instantiations: Tracking Mind Mirror Across the Preservation Landscape.” Archival Education and Research Institute. University of Toronto: Toronto, ON.
Hodges, J.A. (2017, June 10) “Pirate Busters and Cracking Crews: The Materiality of (Anti-)Pirate Innovation in 1980s Digital Text Technologies.” Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing annual conference. University of Victoria: Victoria, BC.
Hodges, J.A. (2017, March 18) “Excavating (Anti-)Piracy: Materiality of Intellectual Property Struggles in 1980s Commodore Software.” Command Lines: Software, Power, and Performance. Society for the History of Technology Special Interest Group Computers, Information, and Society meeting. Computer History Museum: Mountain View, CA.
Hodges, J.A. (2016, July 21) “Timothy Leary’s Incomplete Software and the Dream of Post-Literal Culture (1985- 1996).” Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP) annual conference. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris FR.
Hodges, J.A. (2016, June 29) “User Guides and Mirrored Minds: Initializing Timothy Leary’s Software.” Game History Symposium. Concordia University, Montreal QC.
Hodges, J.A. (2016, May 17) “Unauthorized Archives and Unreleased Software: Preserving a Cancelled Project.” 42nd Annual Canadian Association for Conservation-American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works Joint Conference. Montreal, QC.
Hodges, J.A. (2016, April 2) “Negotiating a Mind Movie: Timothy Leary's Failed Cinematic Software.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies 2016 Conference. Atlanta, GA.
Hodges, J.A. (2015, October 7) “Experimental Uses for Live Streaming Video: Networked Presence and the Online Arts.” Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association annual conference. Philadelphia, PA.
Hodges, J.A. (2015, October 6) “Timothy Leary's Disappearing Users: Virtual Reality and its Ideal Subjects.” Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association. Philadelphia, PA.
Hodges, J.A. (2015, July 8) “Edison's Electric Pen: Mediating Change in Gendered Authorship.” Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing annual conference. Montreal, Quebec.
Hodges, J.A. (2015, May 15) “Become Your Own Head-Coach: Timothy Leary's Unreleased RPGs.” Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA) RPG Summit 2015. Lüneburg, Germany.
Hodges, J.A. (2015, May 14) “It's the Game You Don't Play: Sonic X-Treme and its Self-Appointed Keepers.” Digital Games Research Association annual conference. Lüneburg, Germany.
Hodges, J.A. (2014, November 7) “Self-Appointed Stewards: Unreleased Software and Unauthorized Preservation.” Society for the History of Technology annual conference. Dearborn, MI.
Hodges, J.A. (2014, August 6) “Revisiting Arcades: Spatial Logistics of Commerce and Play.” Digital Games Research Association annual conference. Snowbird, UT.
Hodges, J.A. (2014, June 19) “Playing the Good Life: Arcade Spaces in Cold War America.” Media Ecology Association annual conference. Toronto, ON.
Hodges, J.A. (2014, April 18) “Q*Bert in Space: Haptic Evaluation in Reproduced Gameplay,” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association annual conference. Chicago, IL.
Hodges, J.A. (2013, June 10) “Crossing into Crosswords: Experiencing the Ludic Turn and the Gamification of Everyday Life”. Roundtable at the Media Ecology Association annual convention, Riverdale NY.
Hodges, J.A. (2012, March) “Play as Organizing Force: Players in Ludic Space.” Roundtable at University of Massachusetts, Amherst English Graduate Student Organization Conference. Amherst, MA.
PANEL ORGANIZING
Program Facilitator (28 October, 2023) “Collaborative Interpretive Methods.” Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T), annual conference, London, UK.
Panel co-organizer (2018, October 11) Contested Infrastructures. Association of Internet Researchers, annual conference (Dunham, I. And Hodges, J.A., co-chairs) Montreal, QC.
Panel co-organizer (2019, September 7) Counter-Hegemonic Epistemologies as Innovation and/or Contestation. Society for the Social Study of Science (4S), annual conference (Eadon, Y.M. and Hodges, J.A., co-chairs). New Orleans, LA.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
GRADUATE TEACHING
Information Retrieval System Design. Master of Library and Information Science, San José State University.
Knowledge and Society. Master of Information, Rutgers University.
Social Informatics. Master of Information, Rutgers University.
Foundations of Preservation and Archives. Master of Information, Rutgers University.
UNDERGRADUATE TEACHING
Strategic Presentation Methods in Digital Media. Minor in Digital Communication, Information, and Media, Rutgers University.
Exploring New Media. Journalism and Media Studies, Rutgers University.
TEACHING ASSISTANT
Musical Industries and Cultures. Journalism and Media Studies, Rutgers University.
Introduction to Media Systems and Processes. Journalism and Media Studies, Rutgers University.
GRADING
Rise of Internet Media. Media, Culture and Communication, New York University. New York, NY.
INVITED LECTURES
“Digital Book History.” (2024, March 7) History of the Book. Graduate Seminar, Rutgers University.
“The Uniqueness of Un-Original Objects: Forensic Analysis of Digital Copies” (2023, April 5). Center for Archival Futures, University of Maryland College of Information Studies.
“Media Materiality.” (2021, March 30). Visual Epistemologies. Graduate Seminar, University of Arizona.
“I wrote a Dissertation, and You Can Too.” (2021, February 24). Writing as Craft and as Profession. Graduate seminar, Rutgers University.
“In the Field, With the Texts, In the Archives.” (2021, February 16). Critical Research Methods. Graduate seminar, Rutgers University.
“Digital Forensics and Media Archaeology.” (2020, December 10). Digital Media and Society. Graduate seminar, University of California-Irvine.
“Archive User Interfaces and Good Writing Habits.” (2020, October 28) Archival Enterprise II. Graduate seminar, University of Texas at Austin.
“Video Game Preservation and Cultural Heritage.” (2020, October 6) Examining Archives Through the Lens of Popular Culture. Undergraduate honors seminar, Rutgers University.
“The (Digital) Texts That Make Us.” (2019, October 4) The Books that Make Us. Undergraduate honors seminar, Rutgers University.
“Software and Disk Images as Digital Primary Sources” (2019, October 1) Foundations of Preservation and Archives. Graduate seminar, Rutgers University. “Media Materiality.” (2021, March 30). Visual Epistemologies. Graduate Seminar, University of Arizona.
“I wrote a Dissertation, and You Can Too.” (2021, February 24). Writing as Craft and as Profession. Graduate seminar, Rutgers University.
“In the Field, With the Texts, In the Archives.” (2021, February 16). Critical Research Methods. Graduate seminar, Rutgers University.
“Digital Forensics and Media Archaeology.” (2020, December 10). Digital Media and Society. Graduate seminar, University of California-Irvine.
“Archive User Interfaces and Good Writing Habits.” (2020, October 28) Archival Enterprise II. Graduate seminar, University of Texas at Austin.
“Video Game Preservation and Cultural Heritage.” (2020, October 6) Examining Archives Through the Lens of Popular Culture. Undergraduate honors seminar, Rutgers University.
“The (Digital) Texts that make us.” (2019, October 4) The Books that Make Us. Undergraduate honors seminar, Rutgers University.
“Software and Disk Images as Digital Primary Sources” (2019, October 1) Foundations of Preservation and Archives. Graduate seminar, Rutgers University.
“Digital methods for interdisciplinary research” (2019, March 12) Critical Research Methods. Graduate seminar, Rutgers University.
“Born-Digital Artifacts, Paratexts, and Preservation” (2018, March 28) Foundations of Preservation and Archives. Graduate seminar, Rutgers University.
“Born-Digital Paratexts in Historical Research.” (2017, May 2) History of Books, Records, and Documents in Print and Electronic Environments. Graduate seminar, Rutgers University.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Research Assistant (Summer 2017) Associate Professor Marija Dalbello. Rutgers University, Department of Library and Information Science.
Research Assistant (Spring 2015) Associate Professor Melissa Aronczyk. Rutgers University, Department of Journalism and Media Studies.
Assisted in preparing successful National Science Foundation grant application (The Role of Information & Influence Campaigns in Structuring Public Responses to U.S. Policy, 1988-2015, Award Number 1558207).
Research Assistant (2010-2011) Assistant Professor Gabriella Coleman. New York University, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication.
Research Assistant (2006-2007) Associate Professor Helen Nissenbaum. New York University, Department of Media, Culture and Communication.
UNIVERSITY AND COMMUNITY SERVICE
symposium organizing
Principal Organizer and Moderator (2023, April 21). “Preserving and Analyzing Digital Texts” digital symposium.
• $1,500 budget, supported by Mellon-Rare Book School Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography.
CONFERENCE ORGANIZING
Executive Co-Chair (2016, September 31 and October 1) Extending Play 3 conference organizing committee. Rutgers University.
Organized international conference with 130 attendees from 10 different countries, including over 80 panelists and workshop participants.
Raised $14,500 in student-led fundraising effort, securing contributions from five on-campus agencies.
Conducted and oversaw monthly board and executive committee meetings throughout the year 2016.
Oversaw all scheduling, programming, logistics, promotion, and finances pertaining to the conference.
Worked as liaison between student organizers, faculty, and administration.
Webmaster (2016) Extending Play conference website. http://extendingplay.rutgers.edu
Secretary (2014-15) Extending Play 2: The Sequel conference planning committee. Rutgers University.
REVIEWING
Application Reviewer (2024) Rare Book School-Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography.
Article Reviewer (2023) Information & Culture.
Article Reviewer (2022) Preservation, Digital Technology & Culture (PDT&C).
Article Reviewer (2022) First Monday.
Abstract Reviewer (2020) Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T), Special Interest Group Information Needs, Seeking and Use (SIG-USE).
Chapter Reviewer (2019) EBSCO Information Services. Ipswitch, MA.
Article Reviewer (2019) New Media & Society.
Festival Juror (2015) Indiecade International Festival of Independent Games. Culver City, CA.
Festival Juror (2018, August) Indiecade International Festival of Independent Games. Culver City, CA.
Panel Moderator (2015) “Replaying Culture.” Extending Play 2: The Sequel. Rutgers University: New Brunswick, NJ.
Paper Reviewer (2015) International Communication Association 66th Annual Conference, Game Studies division. Fukuoka, Japan
ELECTED POSITIONS
Professional Development Chair (2015-16) Rutgers SC&I Doctoral Student Association. New Brunswick, NJ.
Webmaster (2014-2017) Select-Start, the Rutgers Game Studies Group. http://www.selectstart.rutgers.edu.
Second-year Representative (2014-15) School of Communication and Information Doctoral Students' Association, Rutgers University-New Brunswick.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Faculty Co-Advisor, Society of American Archivists Student Chapter (2023-present) San José State University School of Information.
Master of Archives and Records Administration (MARA) Program Advisory Committee (2022-present) San José State University School of Information.
Technology Committee (2022-present) San José State University School of Information.
Communication Committee (2021-present) Rare Book School-Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography.
Senior Book Reviews Editor (Spring 2021-present) Information & Culture journal. Austin, TX.
Volunteer processing archivist (2020, April) iFixit Medinor (open-access medical device repair manual collection organized in response to COVID-19 pandemic).
Conference registration desk volunteer (2019, September 4) Society for the Social Study of Science (4S), annual conference. New Orleans, LA.
Departmental liaison for part-time-lecturers (Spring 2019) Rutgers AAUP-AFT.
Peer mentor for incoming Ph.D. Student (2018) Rutgers University School of Communication and Information.
Registration desk volunteer (2018, April 27-28) Theorizing the Web, annual conference. Museum of the Moving Image: Queens, NY.
Invited Participant (2018, March 23) Association of Research Libraries Software Preservation and Fair Use Discussion Group. New York University: New York, NY.
Curriculum Development (Summer 2017) Strategic Presentation: Methods in Digital Media. Rutgers University.
Peer mentor for incoming Ph.D. Student (2014) Rutgers University School of Communication and Information.
CAMPUS APPEARANCES
Guest lecture (2024, January 31) “Applying Archival Knowledge to Born-Digital Cultures.” Master of Archives and Records Administration Research Lecture, San José State University.
Guest lecture (2022, November 9) College of Professional and Global Education Research Presentation, San José State University.
Guest lecture (2021, October 26) “Digital Archives and Preservation.” Archival Enterprise I (graduate seminar), UT Austin.
Co-Organizer and Moderator (2021, April 12, 19, and 23) “Born-Digital Evidence and Historical Scholarship” series. UT Austin iSchool Colloquium (in partnership with Digital Humanities @ Germanic Studies initiative and Assistant Professor of Germanic Studies Thorsten Ries).
Guest lecture (2021, April 26) “Supporting Medical Maintenance Labor Under the Epistemic Conditions of COVID-19.” UT Austin Good Systems Initiative Postdoc Lecture Series.
Guest lecture (2020, November 18) “Research in the Time of COVID.” UT Austin iSchool Colloquium.
Guest lecture (2020, July 17) Public presentation of defended dissertation. Rutgers SC&I Colloquium Series
Guest lecture (2016, September 9) Public presentation of dissertation proposal. Rutgers SC&I Colloquium Series. New Brunswick, NJ.
Presenter (2017, February 24) Pre-conference research chat. Rutgers SC&I Doctoral Student Association. New Brunswick, NJ.
Panelist (2016, September 9) SC&I Summer Research Panel. Rutgers SC&I Colloquium Series. New Brunswick, NJ.
Panel Moderator (2016) Pre-iConference Research Chat. Rutgers SC&I Colloquium Series. New Brunswick, NJ.
Panel Moderator (2016) I Passed my Quals-- Now What? Rutgers SC&I Colloquium Series. New Brunswick, NJ.
Panel Moderator (2015) National Communication Association Pre-Conference Research Chat. Rutgers SC&I Colloquium Series. New Brunswick, NJ.
Panel Moderator (2015) New Brunswick Local Music Scene Archive Launch, Alexander Library, Rutgers University-New Brunswick.
Panel Moderator (2015) Association for Information Science and Technology Pre-Conference Research Chat. Rutgers SC&I Colloquium Series. New Brunswick, NJ.
“Twine Workshop and Playtest.” (September 2015) Rutgers SC&I Colloquium Series. New Brunswick, NJ.
“It's the Game You Don't Play: Sonic X-Treme and Unauthorized Preservation.” (March 2015) Pre-conference research chat. Rutgers SC&I Doctoral Student Association. New Brunswick, NJ.
“Dice Night: A Journey Through Dice” (September 2015) Select-Start Graduate Playtest Night. New Brunswick, NJ.
TRAINING AND CERTIFICATIONS
Digital Approaches to Bibliography and Book History (2021, July 12-16) Rare Book School (Carl Stahmer and Ben Pauley, instructors). University of Virginia: Charlottesville, VA.
Digital Forensics: Fundamentals (2019, March 13) Society of American Archivists (Christopher Lee and Matthew Farrell, instructors). Metropolitan New York Library Council: New York, NY.
Stylometry with R (2017, June 5-9) Digital Humanities Summer Institute (Maciej Eder, instructor). University of Victoria: Victoria, BC.
Advanced Criticism and Engagement with Electronic Literature (2016, June 6-10) Digital Humanities Summer Institute (Dene Grigar, instructor). University of Victoria: Victoria, BC.
MEDIA APPEARANCES
“Six Strange Streams, One Weird World: Outsider Streaming and the Internet Era.” (October 2015) LiveStream Public. Brooklyn, NY.
Interviewed in Hasset, S. (2015) “How Psychics, Crystal Healers, and Exorcists Utilize the Web: Tapping the Supernatural Through Your Wi-Fi.” Hopes and Fears. Retrieved from http://www.hopesandfears.com/hopes/now/internet/168753-online-mystics.
Interviewed in Sheffield, M. (2015) “How can you tell you are being watched online?” Hopes and Fears. Retrieved from http://www.hopesandfears.com/hopes/now/question/168329-question-how-can-you-tell-you-are-being-watched-online.
CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE
Exhibition co-curator. (2016, September 30-October 1) “ALTERCADE Game and Interactive Project Showcase” at Extending Play 3 conference. Rutgers University.
Exhibition curator. (2015, May) “ALTERCADE Game and Interactive Project Showcase” at Extending Play 2: The Sequel conference. Rutgers University.
RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Legal Clerk (2013) New York Daily News/US News & World Report. New York, NY.
Web content producer (2012) AOL/Huffington Post. New York, NY.
Financial Researcher (Summer 2012) Governance Tracker Project. Summer 2012. Financial Times. New York, NY.
Workshop Instructor (2010) Step It Up! Media Skills Workshop. New York City Department of Youth and Community Development. New York, NY.
Web content producer (2008-2010) YouthNoise.org. New York, NY and San Francisco, CA.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR)
Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T)
Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS)
Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP)
Society for the History of Technology (SHOT), Special Interest Group for Computing, Information, and Society (SIGCIS)
Society for the Social Study of Science (4S)
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
Digital Humanities, Media History, Game Studies, Information Technology, History of Technology, Sound Studies, Gender and Technology, Digital Preservation, Archives.