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Convergence
Volume 15(3), 2009

 
CONTENTS
 
Swalwell, Melanie Towards the preservation of local computer game software: Challenges, strategies, reflections 263-279
 
  New Zealand's digital game history includes a significant quantity of locally written software titles from the 1980s 
 
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computer
history
memory
pacific rim
technologies
 
 
Ruppel, Marc Narrative convergence, cross-sited productions and the archival dilemma 281-298
 
  This article addresses the speculative role of digital preservation from the standpoint of convergent literatures 
 
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computer
memory
history
rhetoric
 
 
Stakelon, Pauline A sound that never sounded: The historical construction of sound fidelity 299-313
 
  Cylinder recordings as an early form of reproducible sound media were first used in 1877 and continued to be produced commercially up until 1929 by Edison 
 
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computer
technologies
broadcasting and media
history
memory
 
 
Lessard, Bruno Between creation and preservation: The ANARCHIVE Project 315-331
 
  This article is concerned with the pioneering digital archive of media arts ANARCHIVE, which is supervised by Anne-Marie Duguet (Universite de Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne/University of New South Wales) 
 
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technologies
computer
memory
history
broadcasting and media
 
 
Chare, Nicholas Warring pixels: Cultural memory, digital testimony, and the conflict in Iraq 333-345
 
  This article explores the ways in which the films In the Valley of Elah (2006), Battle for Haditha (2007) and Redacted (2007) act as forms of testimony to the Iraq conflict and to the roles played by digital technology in bearing witness to it 
 
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computer
technologies
visualization
film
history
memory
rhetoric
 
 
Langill, Caroline Seck Self-emulation: Upgrades in new media art and the potential loss of narrative 347-358
 
  In this article I examine the ways the archival process has compelled artists working in early electronic media, and new media to `self-emulate', to produce new versions of their artworks 
 
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broadcasting and media
computer
rhetoric
 
 
Veronesi, Francesca, and Gemeinboeck, Petra Mapping footprints: A sonic walkthrough of landscapes and cultures 359-369
 
  Mobile, location-aware technologies are cultural tools for the re-enactment, re-embodiment and recontextualization of history and memory in our everyday life 
 
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memory
race and ethnicity
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