Derrida, Jacques. Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression. University of Chicago Press, 1996.
Philosophical meditation on archives, memory, and the death drive. Essential for understanding archival impulse.
Ernst, Wolfgang. Digital Memory and the Archive. University of Minnesota Press, 2013.
Media archaeological perspective on digital preservation. Bridges theory and technical practice.
Kirschenbaum, Matthew G. Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination. MIT Press, 2008.
Foundational text on digital forensics and materiality. Demonstrates how to study digital artifacts as physical objects.
Parikka, Jussi. What Is Media Archaeology? Polity, 2012.
Concise introduction to media archaeology. Shows how to excavate dead media theoretically.
Chun, Wendy Hui Kyong. "The Enduring Ephemeral, or the Future Is a Memory." Critical Inquiry 35, no. 1 (2008): 148-171.
Theorizes the paradox of digital permanence/ephemerality. Essential for understanding digital mortality.
Gillespie, Tarleton. Custodians of the Internet: Platforms, Content Moderation, and the Hidden Decisions That Shape Social Media. Yale University Press, 2018.
How platforms curate, moderate, and control content. Essential for understanding platform power.
Noble, Safiya Umoja. Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism. NYU Press, 2018.
Critical analysis of algorithmic bias. Shows why platform design is political.
Zuboff, Shoshana. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power. PublicAffairs, 2019.
Comprehensive critique of surveillance business models. Explains why platforms murder culture for profit.
Doctorow, Cory. The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation. Verso, 2023.
Advocacy for interoperability and user sovereignty. Practical vision for alternatives to platform capitalism.
Rushkoff, Douglas. Team Human. W.W. Norton, 2019.
Humanistic critique of platform society. Argues for human-centered technology.
Brügger, Niels, and Ralph Schroeder, eds. The Web as History: Using Web Archives to Understand the Past and the Present. UCL Press, 2017.
Case studies of web preservation projects. Shows how to use archived web data for historical research.
Ankerson, Megan Sapnar. Dot-com Design: The Rise of a Usable, Social, Commercial Web. NYU Press, 2018.
History of early web design using archived sites. Demonstrates value of preserved digital culture.
Brügger, Niels. "Website History and the Website as an Object of Study." New Media & Society 11, no. 1-2 (2009): 115-132.
Theorizes websites as historical objects. Methodological framework for studying archived sites.
Manoff, Marlene. "Theories of the Archive from Across the Disciplines." Portal: Libraries and the Academy 4, no. 1 (2004): 9-25.
Survey of archival theory across disciplines. Shows how different fields understand archives.
Cook, Terry. "What is Past is Prologue: A History of Archival Ideas Since 1898, and the Future Paradigm Shift." Archivaria 43 (1997): 17-63.
Evolution of archival theory. Essential for understanding contemporary preservation practices.
Lessig, Lawrence. Code: Version 2.0. Basic Books, 2006.
"Code is law" - how digital architecture shapes behavior. Essential for understanding sovereignty.
Schneier, Bruce. Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World. W.W. Norton, 2015.
Comprehensive analysis of surveillance and data collection. Practical guide to digital security.
Véliz, Carissa. Privacy Is Power: Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data. Melville House, 2020.
Accessible argument for data sovereignty. Bridges philosophy and practice.
Schneier, Bruce. Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-connected World. W.W. Norton, 2018.
Internet of Things security risks. Shows vulnerabilities in digital infrastructure.
Ostrom, Elinor. Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action. Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Nobel Prize-winning framework for commons governance. Essential for understanding Seed Bank design.
Benkler, Yochai. The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom. Yale University Press, 2006.
Theory of peer production and commons-based alternatives to capitalism.
Bollier, David. Think Like a Commoner: A Short Introduction to the Life of the Commons. New Society Publishers, 2014.
Accessible introduction to commons thinking. Shows alternatives to private/state ownership.
Hess, Charlotte, and Elinor Ostrom, eds. Understanding Knowledge as a Commons: From Theory to Practice. MIT Press, 2006.
Applies commons theory to information and knowledge. Directly relevant to digital preservation.
Bauwens, Michel, and Vasilis Kostakis. Network Society and Future Scenarios for a Collaborative Economy. Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Theory of peer-to-peer networks and collaborative commons.
Baran, Paul. "On Distributed Communications Networks." IEEE Transactions on Communications Systems 12, no. 1 (1964): 1-9.
Original distributed network design (ARPANET precursor). Historical foundation for decentralization.
Staltz, André. "The Web Began Dying in 2014, Here's How." Blog post, 2017. https://staltz.com/the-web-began-dying-in-2014-heres-how.html
Accessible critique of platform centralization. Documents shift from open to closed web.
Caswell, Michelle. Urgent Archives: Enacting Liberatory Memory Work. Routledge, 2021.
Framework for ethical archiving centered on social justice and community needs.
Caswell, Michelle. "Seeing Yourself in History: Community Archives and the Fight Against Symbolic Annihilation." The Public Historian 36, no. 4 (2014): 26-37.
How archives can counter erasure of marginalized communities.
Jimerson, Randall C. Archives Power: Memory, Accountability, and Social Justice. Society of American Archivists, 2009.
Comprehensive treatment of archives as instruments of power and justice.
Flinn, Andrew. "Community Histories, Community Archives: Some Opportunities and Challenges." Journal of the Society of Archivists 28, no. 2 (2007): 151-176.
Community-led archiving as alternative to institutional control.
Nissenbaum, Helen. Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life. Stanford University Press, 2009.
"Contextual integrity" framework for privacy. Essential for understanding preservation ethics.
Solove, Daniel J. Nothing to Hide: The False Tradeoff Between Privacy and Security. Yale University Press, 2011.
Argues against "nothing to hide" argument. Shows why privacy matters even for ordinary people.
Rosen, Jeffrey. "The Right to Be Forgotten." Stanford Law Review Online 64 (2012): 88-92.
Legal and ethical dimensions of deletion rights. Relevant to preservation consent issues.
Cohen, Julie E. "What Privacy Is For." Harvard Law Review 126, no. 7 (2013): 1904-1933.
Theorizes privacy as essential for human flourishing, not just individual right.
Benjamin, Ruha. Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code. Polity, 2019.
How technology encodes racism. Essential for understanding bias in preservation decisions.
Costanza-Chock, Sasha. Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need. MIT Press, 2020.
Framework for justice-centered design. Applicable to building sovereign systems.
D'Ignazio, Catherine, and Lauren F. Klein. Data Feminism. MIT Press, 2020.
Feminist approach to data and technology. Shows how to center marginalized perspectives.
Abbott, Andrew. Chaos of Disciplines. University of Chicago Press, 2001.
Sociological analysis of academic disciplines. Shows how fields compete and evolve.
Klein, Julie Thompson. Interdisciplining Digital Humanities: Boundary Work in an Emerging Field. University of Michigan Press, 2015.
Case study of Digital Humanities discipline formation. Direct parallel to Archaeobytology.
Kuhn, Thomas S. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. University of Chicago Press, 1962 [1996].
Classic on paradigm shifts. Relevant to understanding how new disciplines emerge.
Small, Mario Luis. "How to Conduct a Mixed Methods Study: Recent Trends in a Rapidly Growing Literature." Annual Review of Sociology 37 (2011): 57-86.
Methodological pluralism in emerging fields.
Gieryn, Thomas F. "Boundary-Work and the Demarcation of Science from Non-Science: Strains and Interests in Professional Ideologies of Scientists." American Sociological Review 48, no. 6 (1983): 781-795.
How disciplines define themselves through exclusion. Essential for understanding disciplinary boundaries.
Star, Susan Leigh, and James R. Griesemer. "Institutional Ecology, 'Translations' and Boundary Objects: Amateurs and Professionals in Berkeley's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 1907-39." Social Studies of Science 19, no. 3 (1989): 387-420.
How interdisciplinary work creates "boundary objects." Relevant to Archaeobytology's synthetic nature.
Burawoy, Michael. "For Public Sociology." American Sociological Review 70, no. 1 (2005): 4-28.
Advocacy for scholarship engaging public, not just academy. Model for public Archaeobytology.
Posner, Miriam. "Here and There: Creating DH Community." In Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016, edited by Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein, 265-276. University of Minnesota Press, 2016.
Building scholarly community in interdisciplinary field. Practical lessons for Archaeobytology.
Brügger, Niels. Web Historiography and Internet Studies. Polity, 2018.
Methodological framework for studying archived web. Technical and theoretical synthesis.
Milligan, Ian. History in the Age of Abundance? How the Web Is Transforming Historical Research. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019.
Practical guide to using web archives for historical research. Shows tools and methods.
Archive Team Wiki. https://wiki.archiveteam.org/
Community-maintained documentation of preservation methods. Primary source and technical manual.
Kirschenbaum, Matthew G., Richard Ovenden, and Gabriela Redwine. Digital Forensics and Born-Digital Content in Cultural Heritage Collections. Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), 2010.
Practical guide to digital forensics for archivists and historians. Groundbreaking report on applying forensic methods to archives.
Carrier, Brian. File System Forensic Analysis. Addison-Wesley, 2005.
Technical manual for file system forensics. Advanced but comprehensive.
Guttenbrunner, Mark, Andreas Rauber, and Christoph Becker. "Evaluating Strategies for the Preservation of Console Video Games." International Journal on Digital Libraries 11, no. 1 (2010): 37-60.
Technical strategies for emulation. Video game preservation as case study.
Rothenberg, Jeff. "Avoiding Technological Quicksand: Finding a Viable Technical Foundation for Digital Preservation." Council on Library and Information Resources, 1999.
Classic argument for emulation over migration. Technical preservation strategy.
Srnicek, Nick. Platform Capitalism. Polity, 2016.
Economic analysis of platform business models. Shows why platforms are structurally extractive.
Duffy, Brooke Erin. (Not) Getting Paid to Do What You Love: Gender, Social Media, and Aspirational Work. Yale University Press, 2017.
How platforms exploit creative labor. Shows human cost of platform capitalism.
Scholz, Trebor, ed. Digital Labor: The Internet as Playground and Factory. Routledge, 2012.
Collection on labor in digital platforms. Shows extraction mechanisms.
Scholz, Trebor, and Nathan Schneider, eds. Ours to Hack and to Own: The Rise of Platform Cooperatives. OR Books, 2016.
Collection on cooperative alternatives to platform capitalism. Practical models for Anvil economics.
Schneider, Nathan. "An Internet of Ownership: Democratic Design for the Online Economy." The Sociological Review 68, no. 2 (2020): 320-340.
Platform cooperatives as sovereignty model. Bridges theory and practice.
Bauwens, Michel. "The Political Economy of Peer Production." Post-autistic Economics Review 37 (2006): 33-44.
Economic theory of peer production. Alternative to market and state.
Wu, Tim. The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires. Knopf, 2010.
Historical cycles of open/closed information systems. Shows patterns in tech consolidation.
Pasquale, Frank. The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information. Harvard University Press, 2015.
Critique of algorithmic opacity. Argues for transparency and accountability.
Crawford, Kate. Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence. Yale University Press, 2021.
Material and political economy of AI. Shows infrastructure behind "cloud" computing.
Sennett, Richard. The Craftsman. Yale University Press, 2008.
Philosophy of skilled practice and making. Relevant to Anvil as craft practice.
Pye, David. The Nature and Art of Workmanship. Cambridge University Press, 1968.
Classic text on craft and workmanship. Distinguishes workmanship of risk from workmanship of certainty.
Crawford, Matthew B. Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work. Penguin, 2009.
Argument for hands-on work. Relevant to building vs. theorizing tension.
Ratto, Matt. "Critical Making: Conceptual and Material Studies in Technology and Social Life." The Information Society 27, no. 4 (2011): 252-260.
Framework for making as research and critique. Bridges scholarship and building.
Hertz, Garnet. Critical Making: Software Studies. 2012. http://www.conceptlab.com/criticalmaking/
Collection on making as intellectual practice. Shows how building produces knowledge.
Abbate, Janet. Inventing the Internet. MIT Press, 1999.
Comprehensive history of internet development. Essential context for understanding current crisis.
Hafner, Katie, and Matthew Lyon. Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet. Simon & Schuster, 1996.
Accessible history of ARPANET. Shows original decentralized vision.
Turner, Fred. From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism. University of Chicago Press, 2006.
How 1960s counterculture shaped internet ideology. Explains libertarian tech culture.
boyd, danah. It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens. Yale University Press, 2014.
Ethnography of teen social media use. Shows what's at stake when platforms die.
Marwick, Alice E. Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity, and Branding in the Social Media Age. Yale University Press, 2013.
How social media transforms identity and labor. Shows platform effects on culture.
Baym, Nancy K. Personal Connections in the Digital Age. Polity, 2015 (2nd ed.).
How digital platforms shape relationships and community. Essential context.
Salter, Anastasia, and Bridget Blodgett. Toxic Geek Masculinity in Media: Sexism, Trolling, and Identity Policing. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Case study of platform culture (Reddit, 4chan, gaming). Shows dark side of platforms.
Bucher, Taina. If...Then: Algorithmic Power and Politics. Oxford University Press, 2018.
How algorithms shape platform experience. Essential for understanding platform design.
Latour, Bruno. Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory. Oxford University Press, 2005.
Actor-network theory framework. Useful for analyzing sociotechnical systems.
Winner, Langdon. "Do Artifacts Have Politics?" Daedalus 109, no. 1 (1980): 121-136.
Classic essay on how technology embeds politics. Essential for understanding sovereignty architecture.
Bijker, Wiebe E., Thomas P. Hughes, and Trevor Pinch, eds. The Social Construction of Technological Systems. MIT Press, 1987.
Foundational collection in STS. Shows how technology and society co-constitute each other.
Buckland, Michael. "Information as Thing." Journal of the American Society for Information Science 42, no. 5 (1991): 351-360.
Theorizes information as physical/digital object. Relevant to artifact preservation.
Dourish, Paul. The Stuff of Bits: An Essay on the Materialities of Information. MIT Press, 2017.
Materiality of digital information. Bridges computer science and cultural studies.
Huvila, Isto. "Participatory Archive: Towards Decentralised Curation, Radical User Orientation, and Broader Contextualisation of Records Management." Archival Science 8, no. 1 (2008): 15-36.
Community-led archiving models. Alternative to institutional control.
Jenkins, Henry. Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide. NYU Press, 2006.
How media platforms shape participatory culture. Shows cultural stakes of platforms.
Papacharissi, Zizi. A Private Sphere: Democracy in a Digital Age. Polity, 2010.
How social media reshapes public/private boundaries. Relevant to preservation ethics.
van Dijck, José. The Culture of Connectivity: A Critical History of Social Media. Oxford University Press, 2013.
Critical history of social media platforms. Documents shift from user-centered to corporate-centered.
Internet Archive. "About the Internet Archive." https://archive.org/about/
Mission statement and organizational structure of world's largest digital archive.
Archive Team. "Who We Are." https://archiveteam.org/
Documentation of guerrilla archiving practices and community.
Electronic Frontier Foundation. "About EFF." https://www.eff.org/about
Leading digital rights organization. Source for policy advocacy models.
W3C. "ActivityPub." https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/
Federated social networking protocol specification. Technical foundation for distributed platforms.
IETF. "SMTP RFC 5321." https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5321
Email protocol specification. Example of successful open protocol.
IPFS. "InterPlanetary File System Documentation." https://docs.ipfs.tech/
Distributed file storage protocol. Alternative to centralized hosting.
IndieWeb Wiki. https://indieweb.org/
Community documentation of sovereign web practices. Primary source for self-hosting methods.
Mastodon Documentation. https://docs.joinmastodon.org/
Federated social network documentation. Technical and community governance resources.
Flashpoint Archive Project. http://flashpointproject.github.io/
Flash game preservation project. Case study and technical resource.
Kahle, Brewster. "Preserving the Internet." Scientific American 276, no. 3 (1997): 82-83.
Early call for comprehensive web preservation. Founding vision of Internet Archive.
Doctorow, Cory. "Adversarial Interoperability." EFF, 2019. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/adversarial-interoperability
Argument for legal right to make platforms interoperate. Policy advocacy framework.
Çelik, Tantek. "Own Your Data." https://indieweb.org/own_your_data
IndieWeb manifesto for data ownership. Accessible articulation of sovereignty principles.
Stallman, Richard. "The GNU Manifesto." 1985. https://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.html
Founding document of free software movement. Historical precedent for digital sovereignty.
Barlow, John Perry. "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace." Electronic Frontier Foundation, 1996. https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence
Utopian vision of internet freedom. Historical document showing early sovereignty thinking (critiquable but influential).
Your Undivided Attention (Center for Humane Technology)
Critical analysis of platform design and addiction. Accessible to general audiences.
Recode Media (Vox)
Tech journalism covering platform politics. Current events and industry analysis.
The Download (MIT Technology Review)
Daily tech news with critical perspective.
Cory Doctorow's Pluralistic - https://pluralistic.net/
Daily blog on tech policy, platforms, and digital rights. Essential reading.
Anil Dash's Blog - https://anildash.com/
Tech industry insider with critical perspective on platforms.
Darius Kazemi's Blog - https://tinysubversions.com/
Developer building alternative platforms and bots. Practical sovereignty projects.
Brewster Kahle TEDx Talks
Internet Archive founder on preservation mission. Accessible introductions.
Documentaries:
Downloaded (2013) - Napster history, shows platform life cycle
The Cleaners (2018) - Content moderation labor, shows platform power
The Social Dilemma (2020) - Platform critique (populist but accessible)
This bibliography represents the intellectual foundations of Archaeobytology—drawing from archives, computer science, philosophy, political economy, craft, law, and activism. No single discipline provides all the tools needed; Archaeobytology synthesizes them.
Recommended Starting Points:
For theory: Derrida, Chun, Kirschenbaum, Parikka For practice: Archive Team Wiki, Brügger, Milligan For politics: Doctorow, Zuboff, Lessig, Schneier For ethics: Caswell, Nissenbaum, Benjamin For building: Benkler, Ostrom, Schneider, Sennett
Next Steps:
Read broadly across disciplines (don't stay in one silo)
Follow practitioners on social media (Twitter, Mastodon, blogs)
Join communities (Archive Team, IndieWeb, federated platforms)
Build something (tools, archives, protocols)
Teach others (write, speak, organize)
Archaeobytology is a young discipline. This bibliography will grow as the field develops. Add to it. Challenge it. Build on it.
Now go preserve something.
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