Kieran Hegarty
@kieranhegarty.bsky.social
✨ Sociologist | Research Fellow at RMIT | Researching how we record, remember & study people’s engagements with technologies over time | kieranhegarty.com ✨
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 🚫
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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...
July 22, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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...
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...
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...
June 6, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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...
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...
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
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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)
May 12, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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)
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)
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.
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May 12, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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.
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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.
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May 12, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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.
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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 ✨
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May 12, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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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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.
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.
April 11, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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.
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...
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...
April 8, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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...
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...
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 🩵⚡️
Such an inspiring, fun and hopeful look at the histories and possible futures of communications technologies in Australia ✨
Especially loved the CyberCafe 🩵⚡️
February 14, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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 🩵⚡️
Such an inspiring, fun and hopeful look at the histories and possible futures of communications technologies in Australia ✨
Especially loved the CyberCafe 🩵⚡️
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!
Thanks so much to @emae.bsky.social for facilitating this & especially to @ianmilligan1.bsky.social for writing this wonderful book!
February 11, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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!
Thanks so much to @emae.bsky.social for facilitating this & especially to @ianmilligan1.bsky.social for writing this wonderful book!
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.
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.
February 11, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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.
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!📜
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!📜
November 20, 2024 at 11:08 PM
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!📜
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 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...
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...
October 28, 2024 at 10:45 AM
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...
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! 💽✨
Looking forward to meeting & engaging with internet researchers whose work I've learnt so much from over the years! 💽✨
October 27, 2024 at 7:33 AM
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! 💽✨
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 💔
October 22, 2024 at 1:31 PM
Beautiful sounds, stories and images at the Palestinian Sound Archive exhibition at Festival Hall in London 💔
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🔮
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🔮
November 19, 2024 at 11:40 AM
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🔮
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
"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
July 16, 2024 at 8:10 AM
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
"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:
"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:
November 19, 2024 at 11:40 AM
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:
"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 🕳️
June 30, 2024 at 7:37 AM
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...
crikey.com.au/2024/06/25/n...
June 25, 2024 at 4:31 AM
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...
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 😅
Many sticky tabs, post-its, and notes were removed 😅
November 19, 2024 at 11:40 AM
@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 😅
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 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!
June 9, 2024 at 6:11 AM
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 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
Congratulations to the other award winners!🎉
@RMIT_CUR @AdmsCentre @ResearchRMIT
November 19, 2024 at 11:40 AM
✨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
Congratulations to the other award winners!🎉
@RMIT_CUR @AdmsCentre @ResearchRMIT