Publications
MacKinnon, K. “Archiving Platformed Community: The temporal politics of crawling, streaming, rescuing and documenting in the production of platform(ed) archives,” (forthcoming, 2025).
Mackinnon, K, Thylstrup, N., Ravn, L., Jo, U., Bassett, C., Sutherland, T. “Introduction: AI & Archives,” Cambridge Forum on AI: Culture and Society, (forthcoming, 2025).
Mackinnon, K. and Joseph, D. “Networked Nationalism: A Pre-history of ‘User’ Data on the Trans-Canada Computer Communication Network (1968-1972)” (under review).
Mackinnon, K. and Maemura, E. “Infrastructural Consent: Robots.txt as a Protocol for Automated Data Extraction.” (under review).
Mackinnon, K., Nouri-Behrouz, P., Burkell, J. (2023). “The ‘Thorniness’ of Social Media Research: Identifying Internet Research Ethics (IRE) Challenges and Ambiguities in the Canadian Context.” Comunicazioni Sociali, n. 2, 180-190. DOI: 10.26350/001200_000184
Mackinnon, K. (2022), “Critical care for the early web: ethical digital methods for archived youth data,” Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, 20(3), 349–361. DOI: https://doi-org/10.1108/JICES-12-2021-0125
Mackinnon, K. (2022) “The death of GeoCities: seeking destruction and platform eulogies in Web archives,” Internet Histories, 6:1-2, 237-252, DOI: 10.1080/24701475.2022.2051331
Mackinnon, K. (2021) “Ethical Challenges to Researching Youth Cultures in Historical Web Archives (Dispatch),” Studies in Social Justice, 15(3), https://doi.org/10.26522/ssj.v15i3.2541
Mackinnon, K., & Shade, L. R. (2020). “God Only Knows What It’s Doing to Our Children’s Brains”: A Closer Look at Internet Addiction Discourse. Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures, 12(1), 16-38, https://doi.org/10.3138/jeunesse.12.1.16
Book Reviews
Mackinnon, K. (2024). [Review of the book Van Gogh TV’s “Piazza Virtuale”: The Invention of Social Media at documenta IX in 1992, by Tilman Baumgärtel]. Technology and Culture 65(1), 420-422. https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2024.a920562.
Mackinnon, K. (2024) [Review of the book The Modem World: A Pre-History of Social Media, Internet Histories by Kevin Driscoll], https://doi.org/10.1080/24701475.2024.2324406
Essays
MacKinnon, K. & Thylstrup, N. (2025). “The Politics of Digital Erasure: Governance and Control in Government Information Infrastructures” Verfassungsblog. https://verfassungsblog.de/the-politics-of-digital-erasure-us-data/
Mackinnon, K. (2023). “What happens to our data when we no longer use a social media
network or publishing platform?” The Conversation.
Shade, L, Henderson, M.J., and Mackinnon, K. (2021) “The past, present, and future of digital privacy for youth and children: Part 1 and 2.” Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society, University of Toronto. https://srinstitute.utoronto.ca/news/digital-privacy-youth-part-1
Podcasts
Librarypunk (2023). “Web archiving and Social Media with Jessica Ogden and Katie
Mackinnon,” ep. 081.
Interviews
Library Innovation Lab, Harvard Law School. (2025), “Generational Data Interviews; Katie MacKinnon” by Maxwell Neely-Cohen and Clare Stanton. https://lil.law.harvard.edu/generational-data-interviews/katie-mackinnon/
The Tyee, (2024), “How to Save Online News from Digital Death” by Christopher Cheung
https://thetyee.ca/News/2024/06/26/How-Save-Online-News-Digital-Death/
Arobase, (2021) “Une promenade dans les archives et des internautes qui enquêtent: Rencontre
avec Katie Mackinnon,”
Past Projects
The Critical Digital Humanities Initiative (2022-2024) – University of Toronto
https://dhn.utoronto.ca/
Community of Practice – Graduate Fellows (facilitator)
CDHI Research Spotlights (producer)
The eQuality Project (2015-2022) with Leslie Regan Shade
Early Internet Memories
“The Algorithmic You” with Monica Jean Henderson
Privacy Guide
UofT Centre for Culture and Technology (FKA McLuhan Centre) – University of Toronto (2019-2022)
What Would Ursula Franklin Say? – edited collection with Leslie Regan Shade and Kanishka Sikri (OA)
Knowledge Media Design Institute (KMDI) – University of Toronto (2019)
Trans-Canada Computer Communication Network (TCCN) with Daniel Joseph
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