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.

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...

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....

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 :)

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...

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 ✨

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...

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...

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...

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 🕳️

Great to speak to Crikey's @cameronwilson.bsky.social this morning about the growth in AI-generated content on the web & what this might mean for the future of Australia's national library collections... crikey.com.au/2024/06/25/n...

⁦@ggoggin⁩’s ‘Virtual Nation: the Internet in Australia’ was one of the first books I borrowed from ⁦@RMIT⁩ library when I started my PhD in 2020, and the last to be returned when I finished in 2024 📡✨🛜 Many sticky tabs, post-its, and notes were removed 😅

Relaxing at Goanna Lagoon in Arnhem Land after receiving my examiner's reports on Friday... It was a real honour to receive such positive, constructive feedback from such amazing scholars, who both passed my PhD thesis 🥹✨ Such a beautiful place to celebrate!

✨It was an honour to receive the 2023 RMIT Award for Research Engagement & Impact (HDR) for my PhD research on the changing role of collecting institutions in an era of digital & social media. Congratulations to the other award winners!🎉 @RMIT_CUR @AdmsCentre @ResearchRMIT

✨My #AoIR2024 paper was accepted! ✨ I’ll be discussing how library workers at Australia’s national and state libraries responsible for developing web & social media archives are navigating the platformisation of the web. Looking forward to my very first AoIR! 🏭 🖥️ @aoir.bsky.social

PhD thesis submitted! 💫 I explored the practices & imaginaries that surround Australia's web archives & how national collections are now shaped by the (sometimes conflicting) interests of libraries, platforms, internet users & policymakers. Excited for what's next! 🙌

PhD thesis submitted!🥳✨💾 I explored the practices & imaginaries that surround Australia's web archives & how national collections are now shaped by the (sometimes conflicting) interests of libraries, platforms, internet users & policymakers. Excited for what's next!🙌

New article with the wonderful @jbjodieboyd is now out in @JournalCritLIS! We put STS in dialogue with Library & Info Science to burrow into the history & politics of knowledge production about libraries, particularly the trope of 'useful' knowledge🏛️✨🧪

New paper with my wonderful colleague Jodie Boyd in the Journal of Critical Library & Information Studies! We put STS in dialogue with Library & Information Science to burrow into the history & politics of knowledge production about libraries 📚🧪⋆° journals.litwinbooks.com/index.php/jc...

Proofs just came through for my @JournalCritLIS article with historian @jbjodieboyd about the history and politics of knowledge production in LIS and the invention of the category of ‘useful’ knowledge 📚📝 Excited to see this one (soon!) out in the world 🙌

Proofs just came through for my Journal of Critical Library & Information Studies article with historian Jodie Boyd about the history and politics of knowledge production in LIS & the invention of the category of ‘useful’ knowledge 📚📝 Excited to see this one (soon!) out in the world 🙌

Presenting soon at the Born Digital Cultural Heritage Now #BDCH23 Conference at @ACMI! Looking forward to 2 days of all things digital heritage 💾 ✨ @ArchOzMediaArts

Finalising my slides for a talk at the wonderful 'Born Digital Cultural Heritage Now' Conference at ACMI later this week! I'll be discussing how library workers made sense of new forms that were emerging on the Australian Internet in the early 1990s & the birth of web archiving in Australia.

Finalising my slides for a talk at Born Digital Cultural Heritage Now #BDCH23 at @ACMI later this week! I'll be discussing how @nlagovau staff made sense of new forms that were emerging on the Australian Internet & the birth of @NLAPandora🛰️ To register:

Such an inspiring and inspired keynote from @thao_pow at the @HumanitiesAU Symposium! ✨

Nice example from @cameronwilson in @crikey_news on why we need web archives. Compare archived version in @waybackmachine from 24 July 2023: ... ... to archived version from 9 November 2023:

Thesis *starting* to take shape 🙌

Excited to be presenting at the Digital Intimacies conference in December with many wonderful others! ✨ My paper "Living in the web’s ruins: exploring affective experiences & encounters in web archives" discusses the excitement & ambivalence shared by people who have their digital traces archived 🔮

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A very little slice of web history in The Conversation where I trace how the internet went mainstream in Australia. Thank you to the National Library of Australia for preserving the early Australian web, including the world's first online PhD thesis, feminist webzines, student cyberpoetry & more!

It's been really great to contribute to the important work on digital inclusion happening at @AdmsCentre this year, including the Australian Digital Inclusion Index & Mapping the Digital Gap projects. ADM+S created a short video that outlines this work⤵️