Social media has become an important digital space where individuals can participate in ongoing global discussions and document instances of historical events. Social media offers marginalized communities a means to express their identities, voice their concerns, and tell their stories. Archiving institutions have started to include social media in their collections because of its enduring value. However, constraints set by legal and technical frameworks and limited resources available at single institutions can influence the overall representativeness of content archived on social sites. This chapter explores the impact these constraints have on the development of representative social media collections and illustrate participatory approaches that can help to mitigate concerns.
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Chapter Title
Making social media archives: Limitations and archiving practices in the development of representative social media collections
Authors
Beatrice Cannelli
Language
English
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0413-2.08
Peer Reviewed
Publication Year
2024
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© 2024 Author(s)
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Book Title
Exploring the Archived Web during a Highly Transformative Age
Book Subtitle
Proceedings of the 5th international RESAW conference, Marseille, June 2023
Editors
Sophie Gebeil, Jean-Christophe Peyssard
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
362
Publication Year
2024
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© 2024 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0413-2
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0412-5
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0413-2
eISBN (xml)
979-12-215-0414-9
Series Title
Proceedings e report
Series ISSN
2704-601X
Series E-ISSN
2704-5846