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Michael Stevenson is lecturer and PhD candidate at the Department of Media Studies, University of Amsterdam, where he also earned his Research M.A. in 2008. Research interests include the relationship between early Cyberculture and current web cultures, Web epistemologies and software studies. Each of these is pursued in research for his dissertation, which has as a working title "Legacy Systems: Cyberculture, Blogging and Wikipedia." Legacy systems, a concept used in computer science to denote systems that have been superseded but remain prominent through their wide use, is repurposed here to investigate the ways in which contemporary web formats discursively and technologically sustain core concepts of cyberculture as it developed in the 1990s. This research is being carried out in the context of the Digital Methods Initiative.Stevenson has worked previously on a range of newmedia and Web projects with Govcom.org, Network Cultures, Paradiso/de Balie and Mediamatic. From 2006-2008 he contributed to the New Media M.A. blog, Masters of Media.

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