Amelia
Acker
Associate Professor of Library and Information Science
- Office:
- Richardson House, Room 102
- EMAIL:
- amelia.acker@rutgers.edu
Amelia Acker's research is concerned with the emergence, standardization, and preservation of information; in particular, she studies the ways data is represented and managed over time. Currently, she is researching people who build and maintain data technologies, data archives, and information infrastructures that support long-term cultural memory.
Selected Publications
Acker, Amelia, and Jed R. Brubaker. "Death, memorialization, and social media: A platform perspective for personal archives." Archivaria (2014): 1-23
Acker, Amelia, and Adam Kreisberg. "Social media data archives in an API-driven world." Archival Science 20.2 (2020): 105-123.
Iliadis, Andrew, and Amelia Acker. "The Palantir Files: public interest archives for platform accountability." Information, Communication & Society 27.13 (2024): 2343-2365.
Acker, Amelia. "Accessing Software: Emulation in Information Institutions." Information & Culture 59.1 (2024): 1-19.
Acker, A. (2025). Archiving Machines: From Punch Cards to Platforms. MIT Press.