Tragedy Remembered – and Forgotten: The Politics of Memory and Technology Brent K. Jesiek, Ph.D. School of Engineering Education Purdue University April 16, 2009

Jesiek, Brent K., and Jeremy Hunsinger. (2008). “The April 16 Archive: Collecting and Preserving Memories of the Virginia Tech Tragedy.” In Ben Agger and Timothy W. Luke (Eds.), There is a Gunman on Campus: Tragedy and Terror at Virginia Tech (185-206). Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield. Jesiek, Brent K., and Jeremy Hunsinger. (Forthcoming). “Collecting and Preserving Memories From the Virginia Tech Tragedy: Realizing a Web Archive.” In Niels Brügger (Ed.), Web Histories (tentative title). Palgrave Macmillan.

http://www.alysiaducklergallery.com/images/photos/Spector_BorgesFunes.jpg Jorge Luis Borges http://www.slate.com/id/2159222/

http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/17-04/ff_perfectmemory

http://www.wired.com/images/article/magazine/1704/ff_perfectmemory4_f.jpg

“ Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument.” - Primo Levi

mnemotechnical adjective of or relating to or involved the practice of aiding the memory; "mnemonic device" [syn: mnemonic] WordNet, http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=mnemotechnical

http://assets.hulu.com/shows/key_art_days_of_our_lives.jpg

http://bluegnu.livejournal.com/16802.html

(April 19, 2007) 32 stones like this - one for each of the deceased - are arranged in a semi-circle in front of the largest memorial, on the drillfield in front of Burruss Hall.

http://www.vtnews.vt.edu/story.php?relyear=2007&itemno=261

http://www.april16archive.org/

http://april16archive.org/contribute

http://www.april16archive.org/collections

http://www.april16archive.org/items/show/1395

http://www.april16archive.org/items/show/858

http://april16archive.org/items/show/124

http://omeka.org/

http://911digitalarchive.org/

Mike Fox, “In honor of Orange and Maroon Effect.” The April 16 Archive , Item #95 http://april16archive.org/items/show/95

http://www.april16archive.org/items/show/357

Carlos Latuff, "Cho Seung Hui by Latuff2." The April 16 Archive , Item #214 http://www.april16archive.org/items/show/214

“ Through this archive, we aim to leave a positive legacy for the larger community and contribute to a collective process of healing, especially as those affected by this tragedy tell their stories in their own words.” April 30, 2007 http://www.april16archive.org/news

http://www.archive-it.org/collections/694

http://wayback.archive-it.org/694/20080418011213/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/metro/vatechshootings/ (Archived April 18, 2008)

http://www.april16archive.org/frontpages/

Front page of Granada Hoy newspaper (Spain) April 18, 2007

The Prevail Archive http://www.prevailarchive.org/archive/ Virginia Tech April 16, 2007 Memorial Archive http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/416_archive/ The 4/16 Digital Library http://www.dl-vt-416.org/

The Prevail Archive http://www.prevailarchive.org/archive/

Virginia Tech April 16, 2007 Memorial Archive http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/416_archive/

The 4/16 Digital Library http://www.dl-vt-416.org/

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“ The truth is that we all live by leaving behind” - Borges, in Funes the Memorious

Tragedy Remembered – and Forgotten: The Politics of Memory and Technology Brent K. Jesiek, Ph.D. School of Engineering Education Purdue University April 16, 2009