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Ska vi, kan vi, får vi? Sociala medier som röst och fenomen i svenska arkiv

Eldevall, Stefan LU and Carlberg, Lisa LU (2018) ABMM34 20181
Division of ALM and Digital Cultures
Abstract
In the future posts from social media will, without a doubt, be a very important source
for researchers who seek to gain knowledge and understanding about human activity
and life in the early twenty first-century, the society we live in and the communicative
patterns that distinguish the relations between humans ! today. This 2 master thesis aims
to examine how Swedish heritage and memory institutions appraise, collect and
preserve digital born material generated in the context of web-based social
applications. The research is carried out in three, qualitative semi structured
interviews with informants working with social media within the context of cultural
heritage. The informants are situated in three different public ALM... (More)
In the future posts from social media will, without a doubt, be a very important source
for researchers who seek to gain knowledge and understanding about human activity
and life in the early twenty first-century, the society we live in and the communicative
patterns that distinguish the relations between humans ! today. This 2 master thesis aims
to examine how Swedish heritage and memory institutions appraise, collect and
preserve digital born material generated in the context of web-based social
applications. The research is carried out in three, qualitative semi structured
interviews with informants working with social media within the context of cultural
heritage. The informants are situated in three different public ALM institutions. In
relation to the interviews, we also created a quantitative survey, which twenty six
institutions answered. We focus on the archival division within the examined
institutions and ask questions about their approach to social media as a voice and
phenomena in their archival collections, and in the long run, in the context of being
part of creating history and a collective memory. We also detect the hardwired
challenges that this kind of digital material presents to the institutions that aim to
capture and preserve them. Social media constitute a kind of material that is difficult
to compare to other kinds of archival documents and that contributes to, in our
opinion, the historical and cultural importance of them. Thus, our research shows that
very few of the institutions that responded to our survey, collect their own or others’
social media events. To help us understand the contexts of social media and archives
we approach our research using Terry Cook’s theories regarding the shifts in archival
paradigms and Marco-appraisal, Anthony Gidden’s social theories about society and
Michel Foucault’s thoughts about power and discipline.
Master’s thesis (Less)
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author
Eldevall, Stefan LU and Carlberg, Lisa LU
supervisor
organization
course
ABMM34 20181
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
keywords
ALM, archives, archival studies, social media, cultural heritage, ALM-institutions, preserving, collective memory, appraisal, identity, paradigm shift, ABM, arkiv, arkivvetenskap, sociala medier, kulturarv, bevarande, kollektivt minne
language
Swedish
id
8944394
date added to LUP
2018-08-17 14:00:46
date last changed
2018-08-17 14:00:46
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  abstract     = {{In the future posts from social media will, without a doubt, be a very important source
for researchers who seek to gain knowledge and understanding about human activity
and life in the early twenty first-century, the society we live in and the communicative
patterns that distinguish the relations between humans ! today. This 2 master thesis aims
to examine how Swedish heritage and memory institutions appraise, collect and
preserve digital born material generated in the context of web-based social
applications. The research is carried out in three, qualitative semi structured
interviews with informants working with social media within the context of cultural
heritage. The informants are situated in three different public ALM institutions. In
relation to the interviews, we also created a quantitative survey, which twenty six
institutions answered. We focus on the archival division within the examined
institutions and ask questions about their approach to social media as a voice and
phenomena in their archival collections, and in the long run, in the context of being
part of creating history and a collective memory. We also detect the hardwired
challenges that this kind of digital material presents to the institutions that aim to
capture and preserve them. Social media constitute a kind of material that is difficult
to compare to other kinds of archival documents and that contributes to, in our
opinion, the historical and cultural importance of them. Thus, our research shows that
very few of the institutions that responded to our survey, collect their own or others’
social media events. To help us understand the contexts of social media and archives
we approach our research using Terry Cook’s theories regarding the shifts in archival
paradigms and Marco-appraisal, Anthony Gidden’s social theories about society and
Michel Foucault’s thoughts about power and discipline.
Master’s thesis}},
  author       = {{Eldevall, Stefan and Carlberg, Lisa}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Ska vi, kan vi, får vi? Sociala medier som röst och fenomen i svenska arkiv}},
  year         = {{2018}},
}