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Brian Michael Murphy

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The United States

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Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry

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February 2022

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Brian Michael Murphy is a media archaeologist and writer whose work cuts across disciplines and genres. He is Chair and Associate Professor of American Studies at Williams College and a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.

His book We the Dead: Preserving Data at the End of the World (University of North Carolina Press, 2022), explores Americans’ obsession with preserving increasingly vast amounts of data in all formats, from paper to microfilm, to digital files and information written in synthetic DNA. It won both the Anne Friedberg Innovative Scholarship Award from the Society for Cinema & Media Studies, and the Lois P. Rudnick Prize from the New England American Studies Association. ...more