Marije Miedema

An ecologically just future for personal digital heritage: three guiding statements - Archival Science Archival and cultural heritage institutions should take control of our personal digital past in our current global ecological crisis. To develop this argument, this position paper moves beyond the dis...

We ask:
📍Where is our archive?
📍Whose heritage are we preserving?
📍Who cares for it?
Our guiding statements—Take it down, Take it slow, Take it back—connect critical archival studies with ecological justice to imagine an archival ecosystem beyond Big Tech.
📄 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

We develop the concept of personal digital heritage through an ecomaterial lens that attends to where preservation takes place, what informs it, and how it's practiced. This moves beyond disciplinary divides and critiques the archival desire shaped by technological solutionism.

📚New publication out now: In the context of the ecological crisis, we argue that archival and cultural heritage institutions must take greater responsibility for personal digital heritage. Preservation is not neutral—it has ecological, political, and infrastructural consequences.

Yes! I start with the idea of collective shared accountability from a heritage perspective to look at the personal to go beyond the personal as something inherently individual :)

Self-congratulating first post seems fitting for Bluesky. My talk on the future of personal digital heritage resulted in a lively discussion on class, oral stories, and social media. Thanks @dh-researchhub.bsky.social for hosting the Born-Digital Collections, Archives and Memory conference!

There are many (21!) cool PhD's opportunities in my faculty, in topics such as Latin America, AI, TikTok wars, gendered misinformation, and many more.

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