Digitalt brus eller framtida arkiv? : Bevarandet av myndigheters sociala medier
(2026) ABMM34 20261Division of ALM, Digital Cultures and Publishing Studies
- Abstract
- With the massive and rapid growth of social media, governmental agencies have had expectations placed upon themselves to, in addition to traditional media, also convey their messages on these social media platforms. As governmental agencies have risen to this occasion, this has meant that these governmental agencies now produce content in a, for them, new media landscape. As Swedish governmental agencies are still bound by laws, rules and regulations that dictate how and what material they produce needs to be archived, they still have a relatively large degree of freedom within these confines. As their presence on social media platforms remain fairly new, questions arise regarding how and what they have been preserving within these... (More)
- With the massive and rapid growth of social media, governmental agencies have had expectations placed upon themselves to, in addition to traditional media, also convey their messages on these social media platforms. As governmental agencies have risen to this occasion, this has meant that these governmental agencies now produce content in a, for them, new media landscape. As Swedish governmental agencies are still bound by laws, rules and regulations that dictate how and what material they produce needs to be archived, they still have a relatively large degree of freedom within these confines. As their presence on social media platforms remain fairly new, questions arise regarding how and what they have been preserving within these aforementioned confines. To reach the answer to this four interviews have been conducted with archivists at four separate agencies. In addition to the interviews, a document analysis was also done on documents the agencies had authored relating to the preservation of social media records. Amongst the interviewees, one was a representative for Riksarkivet which is the Swedish national archive. Their primary function of relevance for this study is their supervisory authority, as they set up much of the confines that the other governmental agencies have to stick within in regards to their records management. These confines were primarily dictated within documents called The National Archives regulations and general advice, in Swedish shortened to RA-FS, which made for the bulk of the material used in the document analysis. The remaining three interviews done with archivists representing the other three governmental agencies, that will remain anonymous, were done to answer the question regarding how and what they choose to preserve. As the high degree of freedom allows for a high degree of variation between agencies, the last question for this thesis deals specifically with that of context. In the process of changing a social media post, on a social media platform, to that of a record within an archival institution, what context is removed and what remains? To help answer this, a theoretical framework built around the term ‘Record’ and a newly developed model named ‘Mediated Recordkeeping Model’ built upon the ‘Records continuum theory’ was used. The results showed that the Swedish national archive had a very lenient approach as a supervisory authority. This allowed for great variation when it came to records management for the agencies. All of them did however preserve some portion of their social media presence, though questions revolving context were discussed, much of the context was considered either not relevant, or not worth the expense in time or money to capture and thus was lost. (Less)
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- author
- Bartel, Jakob LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- ABMM34 20261
- year
- 2026
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- ALM, archives, social media, government agencies, digital, preservation, record
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 9248979
- date added to LUP
- 2026-09-28 12:04:46
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- 2026-09-28 12:04:46
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abstract = {{With the massive and rapid growth of social media, governmental agencies have had expectations placed upon themselves to, in addition to traditional media, also convey their messages on these social media platforms. As governmental agencies have risen to this occasion, this has meant that these governmental agencies now produce content in a, for them, new media landscape. As Swedish governmental agencies are still bound by laws, rules and regulations that dictate how and what material they produce needs to be archived, they still have a relatively large degree of freedom within these confines. As their presence on social media platforms remain fairly new, questions arise regarding how and what they have been preserving within these aforementioned confines. To reach the answer to this four interviews have been conducted with archivists at four separate agencies. In addition to the interviews, a document analysis was also done on documents the agencies had authored relating to the preservation of social media records. Amongst the interviewees, one was a representative for Riksarkivet which is the Swedish national archive. Their primary function of relevance for this study is their supervisory authority, as they set up much of the confines that the other governmental agencies have to stick within in regards to their records management. These confines were primarily dictated within documents called The National Archives regulations and general advice, in Swedish shortened to RA-FS, which made for the bulk of the material used in the document analysis. The remaining three interviews done with archivists representing the other three governmental agencies, that will remain anonymous, were done to answer the question regarding how and what they choose to preserve. As the high degree of freedom allows for a high degree of variation between agencies, the last question for this thesis deals specifically with that of context. In the process of changing a social media post, on a social media platform, to that of a record within an archival institution, what context is removed and what remains? To help answer this, a theoretical framework built around the term ‘Record’ and a newly developed model named ‘Mediated Recordkeeping Model’ built upon the ‘Records continuum theory’ was used. The results showed that the Swedish national archive had a very lenient approach as a supervisory authority. This allowed for great variation when it came to records management for the agencies. All of them did however preserve some portion of their social media presence, though questions revolving context were discussed, much of the context was considered either not relevant, or not worth the expense in time or money to capture and thus was lost.}},
author = {{Bartel, Jakob}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Digitalt brus eller framtida arkiv? : Bevarandet av myndigheters sociala medier}},
year = {{2026}},
}