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slides for my talk to Katie Shilton's class

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Talk about technical and ethical issues related to providing access to a Ferguson social media collection. Interested in hearing about different approaches people come up with since this is a relatively new area for archival research and practice.

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.
  • Zeynep Tufekci (UNC iSchool) muses on the ways that algorithms shape the media, and our experience.
  • Katie's notion of value levers. The intersection between Twitter's business interests and the values of society, the values of UMD and my own personal values.

13,480,00 tweets

August 10, 2014 - August 27, 2014

63G of JSON

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

August 10-27, 2014

417,972 Unique Unshortened URLs

UMD Ferguson Town Hall Meeting

December 3, 2014

Random imagery from tweets used as a backdrop for the townhall meeting.

Researching Ferguson

MITH's Teach-Ins for #BlackLivesMatter at UMD

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.

Tweets and Deletes: Silences in the Social Media Archive

Point out rate of deletes, and slight difference in delete rates.

Ethics, Rights, Data Management

Katie Shilton, Ricky Punzalan and Trevor Muñoz

Please come! It would be interesting to hear about the approaches people come up with for managing ethics and access.

Questions/Comments/Ideas?

Please get in touch!

ehs@pobox.com@edsu

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