The job of archiving was entrusted simply to museums, libraries, and different associations that acted as repositories of tradition in fabric shape. yet with the increase of electronic networked media, a mess of self-designated archivists -- enthusiasts, pirates, hackers -- became practitioners of cultural maintenance on the net. those nonprofessional archivists have democratized cultural reminiscence, construction freely obtainable on-line records of no matter what content material they think about appropriate for electronic maintenance. In Rogue Archives, Abigail De Kosnik examines the perform of archiving within the transition from print to electronic media, taking a look particularly at web fan fiction archives.De Kosnik explains that media clients this day regard all of mass tradition as an archive, from which they could redeploy content material for his or her personal creations. for this reason, "remix tradition" and fan fiction are center genres of electronic cultural creation. De Kosnik explores, between different issues, the anticanonical archiving sorts of net preservationists; the volunteer exertions of on-line archiving; how fan records serve ladies and queer clients as cultural assets; archivists' efforts to draw racially and sexually varied content material; and the way electronic data adhere to the logics of functionality greater than the logics of print. She additionally considers the similarities and ameliorations between unfastened tradition, loose software program, and fan groups, and makes use of electronic humanities instruments to quantify and visualize the scale, person base, and expense of progress of a number of on-line fan archives.