And yet, again, the possibilities of having students at Queens College, CUNY and other urban, public universities become involved with online, autoethnographic writing--that is, with creating hypertext/hypermedia "pages" that include oral histories from our communities, that document and archive family, immigrant and work-class histories with technologies that reach beyond the textual--is vital... The CETH project at Rutgers seems suggestive to me.... Imaging Florida at University of Florida also opens up the potential of hypermedia for recording community histories ...
A point of speculation and future work for me is the possibilities of a project like CETH or Imaging Florida that begins in the community with an undergraduate initiative to record, to archive, (to create?) not only the textual traces of our communities' histories but also the graphic, the spoken elements... a mapping of Queens, an archaeology of our communities....