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The Media Archaeology Lab (MAL) at the University of Colorado at Boulder (U.S.A.) acts as both an archive and a site for what the authors describe as ‘anarchival’ practice-based research and research creation. ‘Anarchival’ indicates research and creative activity enacted as a complement to an existing, stable archive. In researching the One Laptop Per Child Initiative, by way of a donation of XO laptops, the MAL has devised a modular process which could be used by other research groups to investigate the gap between the intended use and the affordances of any given piece of technology.
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striegl, l., Emerson, L. Anarchive as technique in the Media Archaeology Lab | building a one Laptop Per Child mesh network. Int J Digit Humanities 1, 59–70 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42803-019-00005-9
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