Welcome to our 2024-25 Visiting Fellow, Dr Katie MacKinnon

Katie MacKinnon is a postdoctoral fellow on the ERC funded project, “Data Loss (DALOSS): the politics of disappearance, destruction and dispossession in digital societies” at the University of Copenhagen (PI: Nanna Bonde Thylstrup).
She researches the politics and ethics of data, specifically in preservation-oriented projects like web archives and in the production of internet histories and futures. Her work engages with critical feminist ethics of care methodologies while exploring ageing web materials across platforms of the live and dead web.
Her forthcoming book PLATFORM HISTORIES examines digital traces and data afterlives of young peoples’ online participation in the 1990s-2000s through web archives. She developed a method called the ‘archive promenade’ that aims to bring people back in relation with their data on dead or forgotten web sites. She has published in Internet Histories, Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society (JICES), Jeunesse and Studies in Social Justice.
Katie is giving a talk on Arctic Archives: Temporal politics of platform power, on Thursday 20th February 12 – 1pm, location TBA. Get your tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1232148502339/preview/
Katie is also hosting a workshop with details to be announced shortly!