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Dr Kieran Hegarty is a researcher who explores the physical, social & digital infrastructures required for an inclusive & equitable digital society.

Research projects

Assembling a record of the Australian internet (2020–2024)
Deepening digital data (2022)

Refereed writing

Digital heritage after platformisation (May 2025)
The history and politics of digital heritage aggregation (November 2024)
Web archiving after platformization (October 2024)
Shaping infrastructural futures (August 2024)
Games of truth in LIS research and practice (December 2023)
Imagining permanence on the web (July 2023)
Representing biases, inequalities and silences in national web archives (September 2022)
The invention of the archived web (July 2022)
Unlocking social media archives (June 2022)

Other writing

Averting the digital dark age review (January 2025)
What is a library? (November 2024)
The contested history of search (December 2023)
30 years of the Australian web (September 2023)
The past and future of search (September 2023)
What a library’s social character reveals about the logics and politics of source creation (December 2021)
Imagining the library of the future (September 2021)

Recorded presentations

‘Inventing the archived web’ at Born Digital Cultural Heritage conference (November 2023)
‘The politics of preservation’ at Australasia Preserves Quarterly Meetup (November 2021)
‘The politics of preservation’ at RMIT Centre for Urban Research seminar (October 2021)

List of presentations

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I CONDUCT MY RESEARCH ON THE UNCEDED LAND OF THE BOON WURRUNG AND WURUNDJERI PEOPLE OF THE EASTERN KULIN NATION. I PAY MY RESPECTS TO THEIR ELDERS PAST AND PRESENT. PAY THE RENT.