Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination

By Matthew G. Kirschenbaum. 2007

463 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Information Systems, Literature and Literary Theory, Signal Processing

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In Information Systems

1. Anissa Tanweer
2. Brittany Fiore-Gartland
3. R. Stuart Geiger
4. Paul Dourish

In Literature and Literary Theory

1. R. Stuart Geiger
2. Paul Dourish

In Signal Processing

1. R. Stuart Geiger
2. Paul Dourish

Citations in the corpus

• Bots, bespoke, code and the materiality of software platforms (2014, background): “…but also through the practices and meetings of network operators (Mathew & Cheshire, 2010), the magnetic storage mechanisms of hard drives (Kirschenbaum, 2008), the copyright licenses of open-source software communities (Kelty, 2008), clerical and support staff in datacenters (Ribes,…”
• Impediment to insight to innovation: understanding data assemblages through the breakdown–repair process (2016, background): “…in this sense is often excluded from imaginations of digital data, a view that persists because ‘ a digital environment is an abstract projection supported and sustained by its capacity to propagate the illusion (or call it a working model) of immaterial behaviour ’ (Kirschenbaum, 2008, p. 11).”
• Algorithms and their others: Algorithmic culture in context (2016, background): “…a way of accounting for the operation of a digital assemblage, by any means, but it does imply that ‘‘algorithm’’ may dissolve into nothing when we drill down into the specific elements of a system that might be subject to audit or focused critical or forensic examination (c.f. Kirschenbaum, 2008).”