Filling the ‘Gaps’ in the Representation of Australia’s Cultural Diversity: The Multicultural Imaginary of the NLA’s Oral History Collection

Boyd, Jodie

doi:10.1080/24750158.2021.2016360

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“…I illustrate in this section that silences do not necessarily reflect a 'gap' that needs to be 'filled'. 22 Rather, silences can reflect people expressing agency over their voice in the archives. Therefore, sometimes not collecting something may be the most respectful and ethical option.…”

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Representing Biases, Inequalities and Silences in National Web Archives: Social, Material and Technical Dimensions

Hegarty

2022

A&M

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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.

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Representing Biases, Inequalities and Silences in National Web Archives: Social, Material and Technical Dimensions

Hegarty

2022

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Imagining permanence on the web: Tracing the meanings of long-term preservation among the subjects of web archives

Hegarty

2023

New Media & Society

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This article explores how web archiving impacts the online communication practices of individuals 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 individuals 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.

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Filling the ‘Gaps’ in the Representation of Australia’s Cultural Diversity: The Multicultural Imaginary of the NLA’s Oral History Collection

Cited by 3 publications

References 44 publications

Representing Biases, Inequalities and Silences in National Web Archives: Social, Material and Technical Dimensions

Representing Biases, Inequalities and Silences in National Web Archives: Social, Material and Technical Dimensions

March 2022 Editorial

Imagining permanence on the web: Tracing the meanings of long-term preservation among the subjects of web archives

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