Dr Kieran Hegarty is a sociologist who studies how people’s engagement with digital technologies varies according to their social, geographic, and temporal position. His work focuses on the archives and methods used to understand this complexity.
He recently received an interdisciplinary PhD from RMIT University, was a 2022 Digital Humanism Junior Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna, and works collaboratively with leading scholars of digital media in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S) as a Research Fellow.
He recently received an interdisciplinary PhD from RMIT University, was a 2022 Digital Humanism Junior Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna, and works collaboratively with leading scholars of digital media in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S) as a Research Fellow.
While an emerging scholar, Kieran has already made several important contributions to the study of digital media and societies. His article, "The invention of the archived web", was published in the leading media histories journal Internet Histories in 2022 and was awarded the journal's 2022 Early Career Researcher Award. He has also published in Information, Communication & Society, International Journal of Cultural Policy, New Media & Society and elsewhere.
Kieran’s first monograph will be published in Routledge’s Studies in Archives series.
Kieran’s first monograph will be published in Routledge’s Studies in Archives series.