The ethical issues around the collection, preservation, access, and use of social media data are complicated and numerous. These issues revolve around consent, user intent, and privacy, among others. They present added complexity for archivists, as one of our main goals is the long-term...Show full record
The technical solutions around web and social media archiving continue to advance. While traditional web archiving has a more established history, social media platforms are bringing new challenges to this space. Panelists will discuss the similarities and differences in these closely related,...Show full record
Subject:
InformationTechnology
Creator:
Documenting the Now
Contributor:
Matt Phillips, Ilya Kreymer, Dan Chudnov, Nicholas Taylor, Sylvie Rollason-Cass
Publisher:
Washington University in St. Louis, Documenting the Now Project
Social media has created new opportunities for people from traditionally underrepresented groups to directly engage with the public. This direct access and open engagement presents tremendous opportunities for archivists to better document and take part in open dialogue with communities, whose...Show full record
Social media presents tremendous opportunities for research but available tools for collection and analysis of that data come with tremendous technical, access, functionality, and cost barriers. Panelists will describe their research with social media data and how available tools for social media...Show full record
Beginning in August 2014, after the killing of Michael Brown, activists in Ferguson, Missouri forced a nation to pay attention to the epidemic of police violence against African Americans. Ferguson was central to the mainstreaming of what is now commonly referred to as the Black Lives Matter...Show full record
