Presented at the 4 th Annual VCARA Conference Digital Stewardship & Knowledge Dissemination in the 21st Century May 2013 SLIS Island – Second Life By Sarah Fihe

 Preserving History Old  Journals  Scrapbooks  Newspapers New  Blogs  Personal Websites  Social network feeds

  Archive of all public tweets  Gifted to the Library of Congress in 2010  Over 400 requests have been received for use of this archive  Social media value Twitter Archive

  Facebook and scrapbooks are both “locations of personal media assemblage and archives” – Katie Good, 2012  Three specific functions  Documenting friendship  Album amicorum  Autograph albums  Social network “friends” list Facebook not as unprecedented as originally thought

  Navigating New Media Abundance  Scrapbooks to store clippings of print material  Using social network sites to filter internet content  Expressing taste and building cultural capital  Aristocratic ‘cabinet of curiosities’  Confession books  Scrapbooks  Posts, comments, “likes,” and who they follow Three specific functions continued

  Governments now using Facebook as a primary communication tool  Communicate policy  Solicit opinions  Share information  Announce events  Content and context vital to future understanding Government use of social media

 Method of Long-Term Preservation Image from: Hwang, Y., Jang, I., & Lee, K. (2013). The Archiving Method for Records of Public Sector’s Facebook Page

  Initially seen as positive but reliability has been questioned  Internet just as reliable as radio, and more reliable than television or magazines but less reliable than newspapers  Social networks, especially Twitter, as sources of breaking news  Barack Obama’s Election Tweet  Iran Election Protests  Boston Marathon Bombing Perspectives of Social Network Sites

  Social networks now provide real time news, breaking stories and popular reactions  Constant change on the internet leaves information vulnerable  Social network content is an important part of our social history Summary

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