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#Receipts: A Case Study of the Sonja Ahlers Archive as Platform Feminism

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Information for a Better World: Normality, Virtuality, Physicality, Inclusivity (iConference 2023)

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This paper reports on the early findings of a case study of artist Sonja Ahlers’ recordkeeping to position archives as a kind of discursive feminist platform, predating the rise of digital feminist platforms but aligned in motive and function with them. This short paper represents an early phase in a project exploring archives as platforms; it aims to ground the study within a theoretical framework drawn from digital feminist platform studies, and to suggest some of the ways digital feminist studies can inform theories about records and archives, and vice versa.

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  1. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, V6T 1Z1, Canada

    Jennifer Douglas

  2. University of Calgary, Calgary, T2N 1N4, Canada

    Alexandra Alisauskas

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  1. iSchool Organization, Berlin, Germany

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  2. Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

    Anne Goulding

  3. University of Missouri, Chicago, IL, USA

    Heather Moulaison-Sandy

  4. University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia

    Jia Tina Du

  5. University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

    António Lucas Soares

  6. Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia

    Viviane Hessami

  7. University of Tennessee at Knoxville, Knoxville, TN, USA

    Rebecca D. Frank

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Douglas, J., Alisauskas, A. (2023). #Receipts: A Case Study of the Sonja Ahlers Archive as Platform Feminism. In: Sserwanga, I., et al. Information for a Better World: Normality, Virtuality, Physicality, Inclusivity. iConference 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13971. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28035-1_3

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