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Kieran Hegarty

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✨ Deakin University Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Cultural Heritage & Museum Studies) ✨ kieranhegarty.com

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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 · 29/07/2026
An epigraph or two, perhaps?
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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 · 11/12/2025
Congratulations Lauren! 💛💫
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Kieran Hegarty @kieranhegarty.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
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Kieran Hegarty @kieranhegarty.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
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...
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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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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
Photos: 1A. Flying near Kowanyama, "The place of many waters" 1B. Welcome to Wujal Wujal, "many falls" 2A. Doing a survey with Paul Michael Senior 2B. Research team with Traditional Owner Uncle Bill Harrigan 3. With co-researcher team at Kowanyama Rangers 5. The road in and out of Kowanyama (5/5)
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Kieran Hegarty @kieranhegarty.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Thanks to all the amazing co-researchers, agencies we partnered with, and community members who generously shared their time and insights. And thank you to colleagues Leah Hawkins and Daniel Featherstone for your leadership, energy and long-standing commitment to this work. (4/5)
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Kieran Hegarty @kieranhegarty.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
This include community Wi-Fi mesh networks, plans for digital-first Indigenous Knowledge Centres and digitisation projects, and the use of emerging technologies by Land & Sea Rangers in Kowanyama to support connection to and care for Country. (3/5)
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Kieran Hegarty @kieranhegarty.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
It was a privilege to spend time with residents, Traditional Owners, rangers, and local organisations, and to hear about the ways people are working to build digital infrastructure that reflects the values and priorities of their communities. (2/5)
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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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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Critical Archives Reading Group: Tom Nesmith. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
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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
Congratulations Marije!✨
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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 · 04/04/2025
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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
Available here: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/DWX9Q... (message me if you can't access) Thanks so much to @emae.bsky.social for facilitating this & especially to @ianmilligan1.bsky.social for writing this wonderful book!
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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 · 07/02/2025
😭I know! Hopefully soon 💫
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Kieran Hegarty @kieranhegarty.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
☺️
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Kieran Hegarty @kieranhegarty.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
So good Kat!
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Kieran Hegarty @kieranhegarty.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
We sum this as a shift from standardising *cultural data* to coordinating *data cultures*🏛
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Kieran Hegarty @kieranhegarty.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
We draw on STS & infrastructure studies (particularly @avastmachine.bsky.social - ty!) to argue that aggregating cultural collections is not just a matter of standardising metadata but coordinating different capacities & priorities, particularly the divides between major museums & community museums.
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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 · 18/11/2024
Turns out ‘rebanalizing’ social media is what the people want
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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
Thank you Shannon! I loved your piece on 5G from 2019 ✨ reallifemag.com/networked-dr...
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Networked Dream Worlds — Real Life
Is 5G solving real, pressing problems or merely creating new ones?
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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 · 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:
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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 · 26/06/2024
Fantastic! ✨
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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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