Meeting 4 of 2026 will be held on 9 December, at 1pm AEDT. We will be reading Cameron M. Pierson, and Elizabeth Tait, “Archiving Queerly Otherwise: Queer Records, AI, and the Potentialities of Continued Harm.” Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association 75 (3): 644–68, 2026. Available via: https://doi.org/10.1080/24750158.2026.2692785 We will be joined by author Elizabeth Tait for the discussion. Please RSVP by registering here: https://unimelb.zoom.us/meeting/register/6RehU_j1RrWybdNXhF9Qrw Also, please come with your ideas for articles you're interested in reading and discussing at future meetings. If you're super keen, you can add your suggestions to our Zotero library . If you would like more information, send us an email . Image credit: pampi89, 'Women sitting reading their own books at home', vector image, URL: https://www.vectorstock.com/royalty-free-vector/women-sitting-reading-their-own-books-at-home-vector-24571276 (ac...
Meeting 3 of 2026 will be held on Wednesday 30 September, at 4pm AEST - please note different meeting time. We will be reading Katie Mackinnon, "Critical care for the early web: ethical digital methods for archived youth data", Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society , 2022, 20(3): 349-361, available via: https://doi.org/10.1108/JICES-12-2021-0125 . If you cannot access the article, please get in touch and we will foward it to you. Katie also produced a zine on her research called "Early Internet Memories" that is recommended: https://katiemackinnon.xyz/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/early-internet-memories-6.pdf We will be joined by author Katie Mackinnon for the discussion. Katie is an Assistant Professor at University of Copenhagen, where she works on the research project Data Loss: The Politics of Disappearance, Destruction and Dispossession in Digital Societies . She researches web archives, internet histories, and social media platforms, a...