• Title: Archiving Machines: From Punch Cards to Platforms
• Author(s) Amelia Acker
• Publisher: The MIT Press (November 11, 2025); eBook (Creative Commons Licensed)
• License(s): Creative Commons License (CC)
• Paperback: 258 pages pages
• eBook: PDF and PDF Files
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0262553244
• ISBN-13: 978-0262553247
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Book Description

This open access book advances our understanding of memory, information, and data by charting the struggle between the computing technologies that archive data and the cultures of information that have led to platforms that assert control over its use.

• Amelia Acker is Associate Professor in the School of Communication & Information at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.

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