DocNow Advisory Board Meeting 2016 Panel 5: Social Media Archiving and Community Documentation (Video)
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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 histories and narratives were not widely accessible in the past. This new access also raises issues the value of social media as valid historical records and ethics concerns including privacy of social media users. How can archivists balance those issues versus professional mandates for documentation? Panelists will discuss their work to document various communities and the challenges, conflicts and opportunities for using social media as a gateway to community documentation.
