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 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, and engages with critical feminist ethics of care methodologies for web archival research while exploring social, infrastructural, and policy issues of the internet.

Please RSVP by registering here: https://unimelb.zoom.us/meeting/register/PyZwceo3SV2njC7C96eKKA

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.

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