"Standards stabilise and materialise imaginaries of what the internet is and should be..." 🛜🗐 Wonderful have my entry on "Standards" included in "Imagining the Internet(s): A Collaborative Glossary", edited by @nathaliefridz.bsky.social & Anya Shchetvina! matterofimagination.neocities.org/glossary

Out now: Review The Routledge Companion to Transnational Web Archive Studies edited by Aasman et al. Reviewer: K. Hegarty www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Piece on web history? Submit @InternetHistor www.tandfonline.com/rint20, or email Mg Ed Jane Winters jane.winters@sas.ac.uk #webarchiving

The Routledge Companion to Transnational Web Archive Studies

Published in Internet Histories: Digital Technology, Culture and Society (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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My review of "The Routledge Companion to Transnational Web Archive Studies" is out in Internet Histories! 🕸️🌐 The book is "a lively set of experiments that poke around at the possibilities, limits and biases of these rich, but often unruly, accumulations" 🎨 www.tandfonline.com/eprint/5NVZT...

A nice surprise in the mail today – my author copy of Platform Power & Libraries, which came out last year on @libraryjuicepress.bsky.social ! 💛💙 The book is available in print: litwinbooks.com/books/platfo... … and as a pre-print: spectrum.library.concordia.ca/id/eprint/99...

Looking forward to AusSTS-ing tomorrow!✨ I'll be presenting on how libraries - through the production of web archives - have become active agents in the unruly lives and afterlives of digital data.

Timothy Neale@tdneale.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Melbourne-ite STS-ers, the local AusSTS node are doing a wee Summer Symposium on AFTERMATH - Mon 23 February 2026. If you are interested in coming along then please submit an abstract by 25 Nov 2025 ⏰https://forms.gle/9kwgnpDiE2HP61sF7?_imcp=1

One of my favourite podcasts 🤓 A fabulous discussion about Mackenzie & Wajcman’s ‘The Social Shaping of Technology’ and discussion with Judy Wajcman 💚 podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/t...

The Sociology of Everything Podcast

Social Sciences Podcast · Updated Twice Monthly · The Sociology of Everything Podcast offers listeners a (sometimes) comedic and accessible look at the wonders of sociology. It is created and hosted b...

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Lovely to see this little @libraryjuicepress.bsky.social book I contributed to in print! ✨ Commercial platforms are increasingly shaping library operations - my chapter focuses on how crackdowns on crawling & API access limit what is preserved by deposit libraries 🚫 litwinbooks.com/books/platfo...

I have a chapter in "Platform Power & Libraries" which has just been published by Library Juice Press✨ As in many other sectors, commercial intermediaries are increasingly shaping how libraries fulfil their functions & serve their users - but there is resistance!✊ litwinbooks.com/books/platfo...

Just returned from 2 inspiring weeks of fieldwork in Cape York, visiting the remote First Nations communities of Wujal Wujal and Kowanyama for the Mapping the Digital Gap project, which tracks media & communications across 10 remote First Nations communities over several years ✨ (1/5)

Looking forward to chairing the next Critical Archives Reading Group on 28 May at 1pm (AEST)📜✨ We'll be discussing "The cloud, the public square, and digital public archival infrastructure" by Tom Nesmith (Archival Science, 2023). Please join us! www.criticalarchivesreading.com/2025/05/meet...

ADM+S Research Fellow Dr Kieran Hegarty presented his research on how public libraries are navigating systems developed by and for private platforms, and what this means for their role in securing access to information of long-term public interest. 🔗 More: admscentre.org/4isplhe #AI #libraries

Had an inspiring time at #AlgoSoc2025 in Amsterdam! 💛💙 I presented a paper with @admscentre.org.au colleagues on how public libraries are (re)negotiating their roles in the algorithmic society & learned a lot from the wonderful ideas shared throughout the conference.

In Amsterdam to present with ADM+S colleagues at @algosoc.org !✨ Our paper is about how libraries navigate competing values as they engage new technologies and what's at stake as market actors increasingly shape cultural access and preservation. Program looks lekker: algosoc.org/uploads/Algo...

#OutNow in #iCS This article by Kieran Hegarty interrogates the methods for social media data for archiving by libraries and suggests it is possible to read it along the grain of platformisation to bring attention to their power dynamics. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Web archives after platformization: reading social media collections along the archival grain

This article draws on ethnographic and historical research at two Australian libraries to explore how the platformization of the web has altered the content, character, and potential future utility...

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I'll be in London next week for Born-Digital Collections, Archives & Memory at @dh-researchhub.bsky.social ✨ I'll be presenting on how public libraries are navigating & resisting the increasing dominance of commercial platforms 📖✊ Looking forward to seeing friends & colleagues, new & old :)

Born-Digital Collections, Archives and Memory

Born-Digital Collections, Archives and Memory is a conference that seeks to further an interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral discussion on how the born-digital transforms research.

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Nice piece by @jeppestricker.bsky.social on the structural causes & epistemic consquences of use of GenAI in knowledge production… “AI is not the disease; it is the symptom of a system that already prioritized measurable output over thoughtful inquiry” jeppestricker.substack.com/p/the-synthe...

The Synthetic Knowledge Crisis

How AI is Reshaping Knowledge, and Not for the Better

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Had the pleasure of visiting the National Communications Museum in Melbourne for a tour today ☎️ 📡 🖥️ Such an inspiring, fun and hopeful look at the histories and possible futures of communications technologies in Australia ✨ Especially loved the CyberCafe 🩵⚡️

My review of @ianmilligan1.bsky.social's Averting the Digital Dark Age is out in Internet Histories! 📖✨ It shows how the imaginary of the "digital dark age" saw a bizarre array of actors mobilise to create what are now known as web archives that are shaped by their anxieties & hopes for the future.

New article in IJCP with the wonderful Indigo Holcombe-James from ACMI!✨ We explore the long history & lively politics of efforts to bring together the holdings of diverse & dispersed museums into a single 'distributed collection' in Australia. doi.org/10.1080/1028... LMK if you'd like a copy!📜

Just read this gem about content moderation on Usenet - highly recommended! A beautifully written reminder that communication networks have always been contested ✨

kat@katbamkapow.bsky.social · 2y ago

do you care about content moderation, community forward design & combating mis/disinformation? me too! i'm pleased to say that i have a new paper out: "the flames are 50/50 right now" shows how content moderation strategies developed during the HIV/AIDS epidemic: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A small, personal reflection from me in Inside Story on how The Internet Archive (@archive.org) is reshaping the idea of what a library is, could, and should be 📖✨ insidestory.org.au/what-is-a-li...

What is a library? • Inside Story

Targeted by hackers and sued by publishers, the Internet Archive continues to push boundaries

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Just in time for #AoIR2024!🥳 My new paper in Information, Communication & Society explores how platform power is reshaping how libraries collect & share records in the long-term public interest & presents a critical methodology for reading collections after platformization✨ doi.org/10.1080/1369...

Excited to be heading to my 1st ever AoIR in Sheffield next week to present on how platform power is reshaping how libraries collect & share records in the public interest. Looking forward to meeting & engaging with internet researchers whose work I've learnt so much from over the years! 💽✨

Beautiful sounds, stories and images at the Palestinian Sound Archive exhibition at Festival Hall in London 💔

Looking forward to chairing the next Critical Archives Reading Group meeting on 25 September 1-2pm AEST! We'll be discussing Eira Tansey's report on climate change and archives, 'A Green New Deal for Archives'✨ Please join us! Details & registration: www.criticalarchivesreading.com/2024/09/meet...

Meeting 4 2024 (25 September)

Meeting 4 of 2024 will be held on 25 September 1pm AEST. We will be reading Eira Tansey,  A Green New Deal for Archives , Council on Library...

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New OA paper in Mobile Media & Communication!📶 I usually study the internet's pasts, so it was wonderful to have the opportunity to explore how particular visions for the future of the (mobile) internet are imagined & enacted through the standard-setting process🔮 doi.org/10.1177/2050...

Shaping infrastructural futures: The International Telecommunication Union’s visions for mobile communications and the anticipatory politics of 5G standardization - Kieran Hegarty, Rowan Wilken, James...

This article shows how dominant actors inscribe certain ideas, visions, and predictions of infrastructural futures for international mobile telecommunications t...

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New OA paper in @mobilemediacomm!📶 I usually study the internet's pasts, so it was wonderful to have the opportunity to explore how particular visions for the future of the (mobile) internet are imagined & enacted through the standard-setting process🔮

My PhD thesis is bound, online & I am now officially a Dr!✨ "Assembling a Record of the Australian Internet" explores how a nation's library collections are imagined & enacted in a globally networked & digital information environment 📡💫🌏 To read: doi.org/10.25439/rmt.26157835

My PhD thesis is bound, online & I am now officially a Dr!✨ "Assembling a Record of the Australian Internet" explores how a nation's library collections are imagined & enacted in a globally networked & digital information environment 📡💫🌏 To read:

An appropriate room number for a web archives scholar 🕳️