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Twitter as a first draft of the present - and the challenges of preserving it for the future
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Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Abstract "This paper provides a framework for understanding Twitter as a historical source. We address digital humanities scholars to enable the transfer of concepts from traditional source criticism to new media formats, and to encourage the preservation of Twitter as a cultural artifact. Twitter has establ... view more
"This paper provides a framework for understanding Twitter as a historical source. We address digital humanities scholars to enable the transfer of concepts from traditional source criticism to new media formats, and to encourage the preservation of Twitter as a cultural artifact. Twitter has established itself as a key social media platform which plays an important role in public, real-time conversation. Twitter is also unique as its content is being archived by a public institution (the Library of Congress). In this paper we will show that we still have to assume that much of the contextual information beyond the pure tweet texts is already lost, and propose additional objectives for preservation." (author's abstract)... view less
Keywords
data bank; social media; data storage; twitter; cultural heritage; science of history; archives; data capture
Classification
Information and Documentation, Libraries, Archives
Interactive, electronic Media
Free Keywords
user-generated content; historical sources
Collection Title
WebSci '16 : proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Web Science
Editor
Nejdl, Wolfgang; Hall, Wendy; Parigi, Paolo; Staab, Steffen
Conference
8. International ACM Web Science Conference. Hannover, 2016
Document language
English
Publication Year
2016
City
New York
Page/Pages
p. 183-189
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1145/2908131.2908174
ISBN
978-1-4503-4208-7
Status
Postprint; reviewed
Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications