"The explosion of digital material in the past twenty-five years poses a particular challenge to the guardians of literary remains. I recently went into the recesses of U.C.L.A.’s research library to talk to Gloria Gonzalez, a twenty-four-year-old Mississippian. Gonzalez has found herself at the forefront of the movement to preserve this material since she began, while still a student, to deal with the Sontag archives. As I talked to her, my notes started looking like Sontag’s own, lines of unfamiliar words that defined a world new to me: “bit rot,” “forensic software,” “write blockers.” "
"A lab for research, teaching, and creative production, the Trope Tank is directed by Prof. Nick Montfort and located in the Massachusets Institute of Technology in room 14N-233. To see what we've been up to lately, read the 2012-2013 Trope Tank Annual Report."