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0000-0003-4480-3561
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RMIT University
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ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society
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Publisher: Australian Society of Archivists
Date: 02-09-2022
Abstract: Contemporaneous collecting of the publicly available web has provided researchers with an invaluable source with which to interpret various aspects of the recent past. With millions of websites gathered, stored and made accessible in national web archives over the past 25 years, this paper argues for the need to reflect upon, and respond to, the biases, inequalities and silences that exist in these vast repositories. This article presents a research agenda for web archivists and web historians to together think broadly about the social, material and technical dimensions that shape what is included in web archives, and what is excluded. A key challenge impacting this effort is that various complexities and contingencies of archival formation are obscured. These include wider social inequalities, the entanglement of human and machine decision-making in the archiving process, changing dynamics of power over information online and the environmental impact of technical systems. Accounting for these social, material and technical factors that shape the formation of web archives provides opportunities to develop and use archives in ways that better acknowledge both the strengths and limitations of national web archives as a proxy for the web’s past.
Publisher: Monash University
Date: 2021
DOI: 10.26180/16959154.V1
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 22-07-2023
DOI: 10.1177/14614448231187031
Abstract: This article explores how web archiving impacts the online communication practices of in iduals whose personal websites have been archived by major public libraries. Drawing on interviews with website creators and analysis of their written reflections on the archiving process, it demonstrates how web archiving alters the meanings people attach to their online activity. In most cases, the preservation of their website in a national web archive sees in iduals perceive their communication practices as having wider cultural and historical significance. These meanings are shaped by the distinctive interaction between archiving and archived actors and propelled by imaginaries surrounding the culture and history of the collecting institution. Based on these findings, this article argues that web archiving can be productively understood as an intervention in the dynamics of online sociality and calls for reflexive archival and research practices that attend to the short- and long-term impacts of altering the visibility of online material.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 25-07-2022
Publisher: Sociological Review Foundation
Date: 14-12-2021
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2021
Location: Australia
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