Megan Sapnar Ankerson

assoc prof comm & media, univ of mich; author of Dot-com Design; studies digital culture; web histories; design; media archives. I also tweet my tech troubles.

[Megan Sapnar Ankerson @megsapank]

@WOMCMornings driving kids to school and listening to 104.3 discussion of trash pizza. I think the real story is Debbie. Who is she? Why does she like Diet Coke so much? Please explain!

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@s2ceball I’m tuning in to see what the younger sister does. Also, whose cookies made it to the final menu?

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@HiltonHotels @HiltonVermont @Hilton #AgreeHilton

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I’m so grateful to a kind person staying @Hiltonvermont who found my lost wallet on the sidewalk & turned it in. When I retrieved it with such effusive energy for the goodness of the universe, @Hilton staff told me they thanked her for me with an upgrade. This is good business!!

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Off to Dublin for #AoIR2022 to talk about the history of parallel processing (it’s interesting!) So I was curious about the new “parallel reality” experience @Delta. I thought it publicly broadcasted my flight details but apparently only I can see this!? https://t.co/WojHez0dUH

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Just listened to a great convo on ‘The Woman King,’ Black film history and movies as historical records on @NPRItsBeenAMin w @bmluse @_ShamGod @mayascade @blackfilmarchve

https://t.co/VVQ1GzJZX7

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@tainab This is so thoughtful Taina, thx for sharing yr grief. Check out Roland Barthes’s “Mourning Diary” collected short notes on the temporality of grief after his mother dies. Like you, he rejects chronological measurement of grief. He blames the impulse to measure on psychoanalysis

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@IAmDylanLewis There’s gotta be a relationship btw ref mgmt systems, inst endorsement & usability. I use zotero & mendelay now but start w endnote bc I learned it in grad school. Best to adopt habits of downloading citation metadata now, then import to chosen app later

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Cleaning my office I found this teaching kit for introducing Althusser to media studies students. What connects this lady bowler to the “fine marble base”? Surprise! It’s Suze Orman’s Ultimate Retirement Guide #interpellation #ideology #marx #capital

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I’m still waiting for this payoff moment myself, but still keep the faith with my 495 open tabs

[Arvind Narayanan @random_walker]

I mis-clicked on one of my 150 open tabs and it happened to be a tab that's been open since 2019 with a paper that has a solution to the exact research problem I've been puzzling over today. This is the moment I've been waiting for and I've decided to never close any tabs again

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I know there are many problems in the world. But if someone could invent the fix for dealing with folded and misshapen bathing suit top inserts, that would be great. I can rig a fishing line in the time it takes to rig a bathing suit top for wear!

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@aswinp Love.

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I’m at least glad I’m not the only with little to say on this topic!

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I’m so behind! Can you help me understand what’s going on with Dolly Parton and crypto currency?

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@other_shoe Those traumas last a lifetime!

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@kevindriscoll @yalepress Yay!!! Congrats Kevin, I cannot wait to read it! Pre-ordered!

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Are you working on a project related to Internet or Web History? Consider joining @NicholasAJohn and me for an #AoIR2022 panel proposal on this theme! @silvertje @megleta @jessogden @kevindriscoll @pj_webster

[@[email protected] @NicholasAJohn]

I’m wondering if some internet history folks would be interested in getting a panel together with me for AoIR?
I’ve got a internet historical thing to present and I’m keen to have it on a panel with similar historically oriented stuff. DM or email me?

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@other_shoe I have not used a Windows PC since 2003, but lately I’ve been interested in reconnecting with my roots. Still, I know I’ve been trained a certain way… It will always make me nervous to include spaces in a file name. Bc that’s just trouble and why risk it? %20

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@oliviastowell How does genre figure in this?

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@smurray771 @Shadmu4 Almost there!