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ephemeral-activist-culture

My slides for Preserving Ephemeral Activist Culture. November 7, 2015 at Temple University.

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... the existence, preservation and availability of archives, documents, records in our society are very much determined by the distribution of wealth and power. That is, the most powerful, the richest elements in society have the greatest capacity to find documents, preserve them, and decide what is or is not available to the public. This means government, business and the military are dominant.
Howard Zinn, 1971.
twarc.py --search ferguson

13,480,00 tweets

August 10, 2014 - August 27, 2014

63G of JSON

8.4 compressed

Technical accessibility issues. How do you provide access to this content?

Not just 140 characters.

  • time
  • hashtags
  • geo coordinates
  • places
  • embedded media
  • retweet
  • reply to
  • user
  • profile
  • avatar
  • follower count
  • Twitter API

#BlackLivesMatter Teach-Ins

Coordinating Meeting Data Collection Ethics, Rights and Data Management Basic Navigation and Analysis Advanced Analytical Techniques
Twitter likes to embellish its socially progressive image, but it's Terms of Service unsurprisingly and necessarily reflect its business interests. Gnip as data reseller, purchased by Twitter. Shutting off DataSift.
Explain how only IDs can be shared, and how you can rehydrate data.

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