"This Story is No Longer Available" with Amy Carlson

Brown Bag #844
“This Story is No Longer Available: Working with Experiential Media and Life Narratives”

Amy Carlson, Serials Librarian, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Library

Cosponsored by Hamilton Library, Conflict and Peace Specialist, Hui ʻĀina Pilipili: Native Hawaiian Initiative, the Center for Oral History, the School of Communication & Information, the School of Cinematic Arts, and the Departments of American Studies, Anthropology, English, Ethnic Studies, Political Science, and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Recorded on September 26, 2024

Media, particularly social and online media, is both pervasive and fragile. In this talk, Amy Carlson will discuss the experiential nature of life narratives online, and how she managed the shifts, changes, and disappearances of l ife narratives as she prepared her dissertation for publication by Bloomsbury earlier this year.

Amy Carlson received her PhD from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa English Department in Fall 2019. Currently, she serves as the chair of the Serials Department and the head of the Collection Services Division in the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Library. She has published articles in Marvels and Tales and Serials Librarian. Her research focuses on how materiality, reformatting, access, and use accentuate or limit experiences with life narrative texts.