Crafting a technology of recovery: the story of the Virtual Martin Luther King Project

This article tells the story of a rhetorically informed transmedia digital humanities project called the Virtual Martin Luther King Project (vMLK). As a project that is interdisciplinary and community engaged in its development and enactments, vMLK provides a particularly rich site for examining ways to (re)shape the critical/cultural landscapes of higher education. The article explicates how and with what consequences the vMLK project functions as a “technology of recovery” and provides five implications that are significant for scholars working in the areas of public memory and critical studies.