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Bridging the gap: Capturing UK trans health discourse in the Archive of Tomorrow

  • Alice Austin

The barriers trans and non-binary people in the UK face when accessing healthcare have been well documented in recent years, and a proliferation of sites produced by and for trans communities have emerged to bridge the gaps left by suspended services and growing waiting times. Concurrently, a number of high-profile legislative cases and public debates have underscored the extent to which the provision of information about trans* health is defined and shaped by societal and political contexts. This chapter discusses the challenges of collecting online trans* health information in a rapidly changing and hotly contested environment, and explores the questions around representation and the ethical implications of collecting online health discourse.

  • Keywords:
  • BnT,
  • heritagization,
  • legal deposit,
  • web archiving,
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Alice Austin

University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom - ORCID: 0009-0007-5586-2571

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Chapter Title

Bridging the gap: Capturing UK trans health discourse in the Archive of Tomorrow

Authors

Alice Austin

Language

English

DOI

10.36253/979-12-215-0413-2.07

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2024

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Book Title

Exploring the Archived Web during a Highly Transformative Age

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Proceedings of the 5th international RESAW conference, Marseille, June 2023

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Sophie Gebeil, Jean-Christophe Peyssard

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362

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2024

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© 2024 Author(s)

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Firenze University Press

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