Amelia Acker
Associate professor in the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers who studies archival perspectives on how data are preserved and represented over time; author of Archiving Machines: From Punch Cards to Platforms (MIT Press, 2025).
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Mar 4, 2026 • 47min
Amelia Acker, "Archiving Machines: From Punch Cards to Platforms" (MIT Press, 2025)
Amelia Acker, associate professor and information scientist who studies archival perspectives, walks through computing history from punch cards to cloud platforms. She explores data banks, timesharing, PDAs as early app ecosystems, privatized population-scale collection, and how archives shape access today. The conversation lifts key moments that connect past storage practices to current platform power.
Mar 4, 2026 • 47min
Amelia Acker, "Archiving Machines: From Punch Cards to Platforms" (MIT Press, 2025)
Amelia Acker, associate professor at Rutgers who studies how data are preserved and represented. She traces computing’s archival history from punch cards and magnetic tape to PDAs and cloud platforms. The conversation covers privacy law, telephone metadata, the rise of managed data silos, and challenges of preserving software and platform‑based records.
Mar 4, 2026 • 47min
Amelia Acker, "Archiving Machines: From Punch Cards to Platforms" (MIT Press, 2025)
Amelia Acker, Associate Professor at Rutgers and author of Archiving Machines, traces data archiving from punch cards and magnetic tape to cloud platforms. She talks about the politics of data aggregation, the shift from federal to private control, the evolution of files and PDAs into app ecosystems, and how agents and AI reshape archival practices.
