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Kieran Hegarty @kieranhegarty.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Join us for a very special Critical Archives Reading Group on Wednesday 30 September ✨ We will be reading @ktmac.bsky.social's "Critical care for the early web" & are excited to have Katie join us for the discussion. For more details & to register: www.criticalarchivesreading.com/2026/08/meet...

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Meeting 3 2026 (30 September)

Meeting 3 of 2026 will be held on Wednesday 30 September, at 4pm AEST - please note different meeting time. We will be reading Katie Mack...

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Kieran Hegarty @kieranhegarty.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"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

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internethistories.bsky.social @internethistories.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

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

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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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Kieran Hegarty @kieranhegarty.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

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...

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Kieran Hegarty @kieranhegarty.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

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...

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Kieran Hegarty @kieranhegarty.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

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.

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Kieran Hegarty @kieranhegarty.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

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...

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Kieran Hegarty @kieranhegarty.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

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...

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Kieran Hegarty @kieranhegarty.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

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)

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Kieran Hegarty @kieranhegarty.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

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...

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ADM+S Centre @admscentre.org.au · 24/04/2025

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

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Kieran Hegarty @kieranhegarty.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

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.

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Kieran Hegarty @kieranhegarty.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

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...

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Information, Communication & Society @icsjournal.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

#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....

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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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Kieran Hegarty @kieranhegarty.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

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 :)

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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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Kieran Hegarty @kieranhegarty.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

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...

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The Synthetic Knowledge Crisis

How AI is Reshaping Knowledge, and Not for the Better

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Kieran Hegarty @kieranhegarty.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

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 🩵⚡️

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Kieran Hegarty @kieranhegarty.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

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.

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Kieran Hegarty @kieranhegarty.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

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!📜

A screen shot of the title, author details, and abstract of a 2024 academic journal article called "From standardising cultural data to coordinating data cultures: the history and politics of digital heritage aggregation in Australia" by Kieran Hegarty and Indigo Holcombe-James in the International Journal of Cultural Policy.

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Kieran Hegarty @kieranhegarty.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

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

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Kieran Hegarty @kieranhegarty.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

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...

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What is a library? • Inside Story

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

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Kieran Hegarty @kieranhegarty.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

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...

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Kieran Hegarty @kieranhegarty.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

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! 💽✨

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Kieran Hegarty @kieranhegarty.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

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

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Kieran Hegarty @kieranhegarty.bsky.social · 09/09/2024

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...

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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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Kieran Hegarty @kieranhegarty.bsky.social · 12/08/2024

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...

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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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Kieran Hegarty @kieranhegarty.bsky.social · 12/08/2024

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🔮

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Kieran Hegarty @kieranhegarty.bsky.social · 16/07/2024

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

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Kieran Hegarty @kieranhegarty.bsky.social · 30/06/2024

An appropriate room number for a web archives scholar 🕳️

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Kieran Hegarty @kieranhegarty.bsky.social · 25/06/2024

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...

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Kieran Hegarty @kieranhegarty.bsky.social · 20/06/2024

⁦@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 😅

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Kieran Hegarty @kieranhegarty.bsky.social · 09/06/2024

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!

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Kieran Hegarty @kieranhegarty.bsky.social · 15/05/2024

✨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

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Kieran Hegarty @kieranhegarty.bsky.social · 07/05/2024

✨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

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Kieran Hegarty @kieranhegarty.bsky.social · 18/04/2024

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! 🙌

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Kieran Hegarty @kieranhegarty.bsky.social · 18/04/2024

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!🙌

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Kieran Hegarty @kieranhegarty.bsky.social · 17/12/2023

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🏛️✨🧪

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Kieran Hegarty @kieranhegarty.bsky.social · 17/12/2023

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...

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Kieran Hegarty @kieranhegarty.bsky.social · 08/12/2023

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 🙌

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Kieran Hegarty @kieranhegarty.bsky.social · 08/12/2023

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 🙌

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Kieran Hegarty @kieranhegarty.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

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

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Kieran Hegarty @kieranhegarty.bsky.social · 27/11/2023

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.

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Kieran Hegarty @kieranhegarty.bsky.social · 26/11/2023

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:

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Kieran Hegarty @kieranhegarty.bsky.social · 16/11/2023

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

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Kieran Hegarty @kieranhegarty.bsky.social · 10/11/2023

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:

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Kieran Hegarty @kieranhegarty.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

Thesis *starting* to take shape 🙌

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