Affect Theory

Our Metadata, Ourselves”: The Trans Metadata Collective

The goal of this paper is to report and discuss findings from an analysis of 14 qualitative semi-structured interviews with historians and historical researchers on how cataloging systems commonly used in cultural heritage institutions such as …

I’m Really Happy When Sometimes I End Up on a Shelf That Seems Sort of Right: Historians’ Reactions to the Cataloging and Classification of Their Own Work

The goal of this paper is to report and discuss findings from an analysis of 14 qualitative semi-structured interviews with historians and historical researchers on how cataloging systems commonly used in cultural heritage institutions such as …

Expanding Our Conceptions of Embodied and Affective Information Interactions with Queer Theory

Embodiment and affect are understudied in information science work to date. Literature that engages with embodied information interactions typically focuses on physical bodies, while work on affect largely centers people's emotional experiences in …