“Who gets to use what I make? Who am I leaving out? How does what I make facilitate or hinder access?”
While large institutions may experiment with LIDAR, photogrammetry, and AI-based analysis, smaller research teams might struggle with bandwidth, hardware, or software licensing. These gaps risk reinforcing inequality patterns in knowledge production.
we need to consider the ways it is complicit or resists the dominant digital platforms that permeate our lives
Raises an important but often underexamined issue: To what extent is digital archaeology structurally dependent on commercial platforms? What alternative infrastructures exist or could be imagined for disseminating archaeological knowledge outside the logic of capitalism?
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