By discovering, organizing, and sharing relevant and interesting content from around the Web through their social streams of choice, curators invest in the integrity of their network as well as their relationships.

In social media, a curator is the keeper of the interest graphs that are important to them. In December 2010, after the annual Technorati вЂњState of the BlogosphereвЂќ report, digital media pundit Brian Solis proclaimed вЂњ2011 is the year of information curation and the dawn of the curatorвЂќ: If the circulatory practices of comic book scanners (вЂњscannersвЂќ) were once obscure and arcane, something very similar to them has now become commonplace, and perhaps even characteristic of contemporary digital culture. And it argues that the practices of comic book scanners вЂ“ frequently described as вЂњpiratesвЂќ by online journalists, if rarely by the scanners themselves вЂ“ are worth studying not just because of their specificity, but in part because they offer insights into the functioning of digital cultures of circulation in general. It also presents a reminder that we can and should think about digital popular culture in relation to fields other than literature or music. In the process, it demonstrates a research method with practical, ethical and theoretical implications for the emerging subdiscipline of network archaeology. This paper presents the initial findings from a study of the production, transmission and consumption of unauthorized comic book scans (вЂњscansвЂќ for short). In a networked digital milieu, how do you study cultural practices that youвЂ™re not supposed to know about? How do you examine the digital objects related to those practices, when вЂ“ from the perspective of formal copyright economies вЂ“ they shouldnвЂ™t exist? How do you map the erratic, temporary circulatory networks that these objects describe? How do you discern the subject positions within such networks when the people who occupy them as producers and consumers wish to remain pseudonymous or anonymous? And why bother at all? HENRY CHARLES BECK, MATERIAL CULTURE AND THE LONDON TUBE MAP OF 1933ДIVINING THE NETWORK WITH THE FORKED TWIGДЄ NETWORK ARCHAEOLOGY OF UNAUTHORIZED COMIC BOOK SCANSДarren Wershler, Kalervo Sinervo, Shannon Tien HOLDING ELECTRONIC NETWORKS BY THE WRONG END TERMS OF REFERENCE & VECTORALIST TRANSGRESSIONS THE INFORMATION DEFENSE INDUSTRY AND THE CULTURE OF NETWORKS

Nicole Starosielski, Braxton Soderman, Cris CheekД¬IRCULATING CONCEPTS: NETWORKS AND MEDIA ARCHAEOLOGYД«raxton Soderman, Nicole Starosielski, Jussi Parikka

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