DocNow Advisory Board Meeting 2016 Panel 5: Social Media Archiving and Community Documentation

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Documenting the Now. 2015. DocNow Advisory Board Meeting 2016 Panel 5: Social Media Archiving and Community Documentation. Documenting the Now Project, Documenting Ferguson, accessed November 1, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.washu.edu/s/ferguson/item/109531

Title: DocNow Advisory Board Meeting 2016 Panel 5: Social Media Archiving and Community Documentation
Description: 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.
Date: 2016
Creator: Documenting the Now
Tags: Information Technology; Archival Ethics; Social Media Archiving; Library Science; Community Documentation; Privacy; Digital Preservation; Community Archives; Social Media; Research Ethics
Submitted By: Jarrett Drake @jmddrake; Brian Deitz @diuhtez; Natalie Baur @nataliembaur; Desiree Jones-Smith @dpjones1983 (Chair); Samantha Abrams @sabramse
Editor: Steven Vance
Publisher: Documenting the Now Project; Washington University in St. Louis
Funder: Mellon Foundation
Rights: CC-BY 3.0 US
Language: English
Extent: 01:04:00:00