Att arkivera aktivism på sociala medier: Etik, juridik och arkivariens roll
(2024) ABMM34 20241Division of ALM, Digital Cultures and Publishing Studies
- Abstract
- Today, social media offers new possible tools for organizing and spreading political messages than in the past, changing the way activism can take shape and thereby producing new forms of records. These records make up an important part of today’s history and therefore should be preserved for the future. However, despite the possibilities that social media offers, commercial social media platforms are also unstable, making attempts at preserving the records produced there difficult and putting these records at risk of being lost if not actively collected. Furthermore, juridical factors such as copyright, as well as ethical factors such as consent and security, are aggravated and more sensitive in the context of collecting records of... (More)
- Today, social media offers new possible tools for organizing and spreading political messages than in the past, changing the way activism can take shape and thereby producing new forms of records. These records make up an important part of today’s history and therefore should be preserved for the future. However, despite the possibilities that social media offers, commercial social media platforms are also unstable, making attempts at preserving the records produced there difficult and putting these records at risk of being lost if not actively collected. Furthermore, juridical factors such as copyright, as well as ethical factors such as consent and security, are aggravated and more sensitive in the context of collecting records of activism. This study aims to map out the ethical and juridical difficulties surrounding archiving activist social media, as well as examine the individual archivist’s role and responsibility towards this type of material. These questions are studied through use of five semi-structured interviews with Swedish archivists representing public archive institutions as well as private archives and community archives, The interview results are analyzed based on Terry Cook’s concept of shifts in archival paradigms, focusing on the fourth and current archival paradigm, as well as Ashlyn Velte’s research on activist social media and the challenges in archiving it, and Terry Cook and Joan Schwartz article on archives, records and power. The study concludes that the challenges are largely the same regardless of the type of archive. Whether an archive institution decides to collect records from activist social media depends first and foremost on the archive’s mission. Whether the archivist considers their work a form of activism also depends largely on the archive’s mission. Finally, when it comes to archiving activism, building trust with the represented community is important. This is best done through relationship building, consent to collect, as well as transparency. (Less)
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- author
- Norberg, Malin LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- ABMM34 20241
- year
- 2024
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- ABM, arkivvetenskap, sociala medier, digital aktivism, community archives, upphovsrätt och intellektuell egendom, digitalt bevarande, konfidentialitet, webbarkiv
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 9176474
- date added to LUP
- 2024-10-22 10:52:42
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- 2024-10-22 10:52:42
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abstract = {{Today, social media offers new possible tools for organizing and spreading political messages than in the past, changing the way activism can take shape and thereby producing new forms of records. These records make up an important part of today’s history and therefore should be preserved for the future. However, despite the possibilities that social media offers, commercial social media platforms are also unstable, making attempts at preserving the records produced there difficult and putting these records at risk of being lost if not actively collected. Furthermore, juridical factors such as copyright, as well as ethical factors such as consent and security, are aggravated and more sensitive in the context of collecting records of activism. This study aims to map out the ethical and juridical difficulties surrounding archiving activist social media, as well as examine the individual archivist’s role and responsibility towards this type of material. These questions are studied through use of five semi-structured interviews with Swedish archivists representing public archive institutions as well as private archives and community archives, The interview results are analyzed based on Terry Cook’s concept of shifts in archival paradigms, focusing on the fourth and current archival paradigm, as well as Ashlyn Velte’s research on activist social media and the challenges in archiving it, and Terry Cook and Joan Schwartz article on archives, records and power. The study concludes that the challenges are largely the same regardless of the type of archive. Whether an archive institution decides to collect records from activist social media depends first and foremost on the archive’s mission. Whether the archivist considers their work a form of activism also depends largely on the archive’s mission. Finally, when it comes to archiving activism, building trust with the represented community is important. This is best done through relationship building, consent to collect, as well as transparency.}},
author = {{Norberg, Malin}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Att arkivera aktivism på sociala medier: Etik, juridik och arkivariens roll}},
year = {{2024}},
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