Shadow archives in the age of extraction: Metadata, legitimacy, and the politics of Anna’s Archive
Published online on May 22, 2026
Abstract
New Media & Society, Ahead of Print.
Anna’s Archive is a public index of illicit digital libraries that presents itself as a moral and technical infrastructure for global access to knowledge. Drawing on digital infrastructure ethnography, platform hermeneutics, and genealogical method, this ...
Anna’s Archive is a public index of illicit digital libraries that presents itself as a moral and technical infrastructure for global access to knowledge. Drawing on digital infrastructure ethnography, platform hermeneutics, and genealogical method, this ...