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Derucki_Caroline_Everyone Watches Women's Sports This collection celebrates the progress that has been made in women's sports in recent years. Starting from the passing of Title IX, which led to the expansion of women's and girl's sports in schools to the creation of new professional leagues for women's sports, there is so much to celebrate and recognize.
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Everton_Daniel_ExistenceIsResistence LIS889 assets for Digital Curation project.
***Please refer to identifier to see/watch the specific media [Omeka would not allow dropbox links, and youtube kept copyright striking and removing videos]**
Titles of items are original from downloading them in order to maintain metadata.
About:
Let’s cut to the chase: we are living in crazy times right now. This current administration has focused entirely on gutting our history, questioning our legal status, called us frauds, denied healthcare, and currently gay marriage is now up on the chopping block. Queer people, particularly transgender people, have reacted to this hostility in varied and interesting ways. Memes, diss tracks, thoughtful retrospectives, and comedy are just the few things we have done outside of outright activism. Many would dismiss this as just joking around or making content, but the digital realm has been a space of being unapologetically queer.
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Hubble_Claire_"Harry and the Thief" Digital Dramaturgy This collection includes digital objects relating to the play Harry and the Thief by Sigrid Gilmer, a black comedy about a modern physicist who sends his thief cousin back in time to give Harriet Tubman guns and ammunition. Every object in this set is mentioned or alluded to in the script and adds historical and cultural significance when rehearsing and performing the play. The primary audience includes performing arts creative teams and production crews who are currently working, or plan to work, on the play.
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Masis_Amanda_ Experimental Film and The Politics of Cinema Departing from narrative and conventional filmmaking practices, experimental films allow directors to explore the limits of filmic media, pushing and reworking the definition of a "movie" to new limits.
The process of setting aside classical film structure has created new possibilities in political expression and storytelling. Filmmakers have become free to utilize fragmentation, blurred boundaries between real and staged, new digital techniques, and digital collage to create new metaphors within their practice.
The materials found in this collection are all related to experimental cinema and its use as a tool for exploring themes that stretch out across the horizon of the personal and political.
Items included in this collection include "born digital" films, interviews, articles, and other digital ephemera related to the filmmaking process and the films themselves.
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Mazzoni_Jennifer_LGBTQ+ Public Art in the United States Public art is an open and accessible form of creative expression. Despite obstacles, LGBTQ+ artists continue to choose public art to express themselves. The art can represent joy, resilience, resistance, social justice, and activism. This collection is inspired by the efforts of the Trump administration to erase and delete records and works by women, people of color, and the LGBTQ+ community. Public creations by LGBTQ+ artists are vibrant and bring hope to many, but these works are in danger of erasure. Digital preservation is the best method to ensure that LGBTQ+ public art works are not lost forever.
This is a collection of 30 digital images which prioritizes works by LGBTQ+ artists of color and features murals, sculptures, monuments, statues, graphic arts, and mosaics.
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Morlan_Kaylee_Ant's Adopt a Gay Pet Ant’s Adopt A Gay Pet--or Ant’s Gay Pet Adoption Service--was a participatory web page on GeoCities, a free web hosting site active from 1994-2009 that allowed users to publish and visit web sites. In 2025, thousands of GeoCities pages are available due to a digital preservation project called restoritivland, focused on restoring abandoned web pages to a searchable and stable state. Hidden within restoritivland’s Geocities Gallery is Ant’s Adopt A Gay Pet, an artifact of queer leisure on the early internet.
Created by a 25-year-old gay man named Anthony (Ant, to his friends) in 1998, the site featured Ant’s doodles of a variety of pets with corresponding biographies describing their likes, dislikes, and sexual identities. To adopt a pet, site visitors completed an electronic form indicating the adoptee of the pet—themselves or a friend, the pet’s name, species, and an optional message. Ant automated these form responses to upload to a virtual guest book that logs every gay virtual pet adoption that occurred on the site.
The digital collection, Ant’s Adopt a Gay Pet, is curated to highlight the queer experience within digital footprints. Ant’s website provided a digital venue for queer people and their loved ones to be creative, funny, and thoughtful in unique ways with a new medium. The images and texts contained within the digital collection illustrate how Ant’s creative endeavors were received by a sample of GeoCities passersby.
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Mostek_Max_Internet Lore, Viral Hoaxes, & Urban Myths This collection documents notable digital-born phenomena from the history of the internet, including viral hoaxes, online urban legends, and social media myths. By capturing tweets, forum posts, videos, memes, and articles that chronicle these events, the collection preserves an essential dimension of digital folklore and provides insights into how misinformation and internet storytelling shape contemporary digital culture.
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Obermaier_Delena_Documenting the Tesla Takedown movement This collection consists of digital-born materials documenting the Tesla Takedown movement and related anti-Tesla / anti-Elon Musk actions that began in February 2025 and are still ongoing as of April 2025. The digital objects range from interactive webpages to still and moving images and audio. The collection includes reactionary and other right-wing responses to the movement, including content coming directly from Elon Musk. This collection documents the movement as both a grassroots organizing effort and the general "culture war" that has developed around Tesla in response to Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
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Plecki_Annie_LGBTQ+ Dating in The Digital Sphere
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Reason_Mackenzie_Artificial Intelligence & I The theme of this digital curation collection is to highlight the advancement of artificial intelligence. Digital artifacts pertaining to the creation and foundation of artificial intelligence and its focus of generative operations are the foundation of the collection. Along with those artifacts, materials regarding current usage of artificial intelligence in the research and education fields. These artifacts will highlight the negative effects of generative artificial intelligence and the inconsistencies it has. This is a concerning issue as students continue to use artificial intelligence to complete coursework, spread misinformation, and contribute to the generation of false information. The goal of this digital curation collection is to serve as a continuous and adaptive repository to combat the very similar evolving AI advancement whilst advocating for the need of librarians, digital curators, archivists, and other information specialists in this digital dependent world.
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Young_Aliyah_AmericanMilitaryPropaganda This collection consists of diverse examples of American propaganda from 1964 to 2025. Themes throughout the collection relate to militarism and American nationalism reflected through governmental resources and pop culture material. This collection was created to establish a historiographic record of American propaganda for future study and record keeping. As digital debris pollutes cyberspace and monopolies shape the internet, it is increasingly more difficult to maintain stable records for digital artifacts. These curated examples of propaganda may help future students and researchers adequately contextualize them and combat erasure. Both digitized and born-digital artifacts are included in this collection.