The digital traces of user generated content
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The document discusses the potential of user-generated content from social media as significant historical sources for future archives, particularly the Library of Congress. It raises questions about the value of such content, its role in documenting contemporary life, and the challenges faced by historians and libraries in preserving this digital information. The presentation also covers the immediacy of social media communication and the implications for historical research.
The digital traces of user generated content
- 1. THE DIGITAL TRACES OF USER-GENERATED CONTENT: HOW SOCIAL MEDIA DATA MAY BECOME THE HISTORICAL SOURCES OF THE FUTURE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, MAY 14TH, 2015 DR. KATRIN WELLER GESIS – LEIBNIZ-INSTITUT FÜR SOZIALWISSENSCHAFTEN JOHN W. KLUGE FELLOWSHIP IN DIGITAL STUDIES, LIBRARY OF CONGRESS WWW.KATRINWELLER.DE ● KATRIN.WELLER@GESIS.ORG ● @KWELLE
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- 3. 3 SERIOUSLY? DO THEY NOT REALIZE THAT 99% OF TWEETS ARE WORTHLESS BABBLE THAT READ SOMETHING LIKE ‘JUST WOKE UP. GOING TO STARBUCKS NOW. GETTING LATTE.’ READER’S COMMENT FOUND IN THE COMMENT SECTION FOR GROSS, D. (2010, APRIL 14). LIBRARY OF CONGRESS TO ARCHIVE YOUR TWEETS. CNN. RETRIEVED FROM HTTP://EDITION.CNN.COM/2010/TECH/04/14/LIBRARY.CONGRESS.TWITTER/, RETRIEVED NOVEMBER 19. PHOTOS: HTTPS://WWW.FLICKR.COM/SEARCH/?TEXT=COFFEE&LICENSE=4%2C5%2C6%2C9%2C10
- 4. SOCIAL MEDIA AND USER-GENERATED CONTENT 4
- 5. 5 2006
- 6. 6 2011
- 7. 8 WORTHLESS BABBLE? POINTLESS BABBLE? Kelly, R. (2009). Twitter Study. Pear Analytics, retrieved from http://www.pearanalytics.com/wp- content/uploads/2012/12/Twitter-Study-August-2009.pdf
- 8. BUT… 9
- 11. SOCIAL MEDIA IS AFFECTING DISCOURSES AND EVENTS 12
- 12. #egypt #gezi #furgeson #jesuischarlie #occupy #qldfloods #royalwedding #olympics #election2012 …
- 13. (SOCIAL MEDIA USERS INTERACTING WITH HISTORICAL SOURCES/PLACES) 14
- 16. 17 SIMILAR CONCEPTS http://storycorps.org/ Oral History vs. Crowdsourcing?
- 17. NEW FORMATS 18
- 18. 19 NEW MODES OF ANALYSIS
- 19. 20 Paul Butler, Data: Facebook. Imagage: https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=469716398919
- 20. Miguel Rios (Twitter) Data: Twitter http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/this-is-what-a-sabbatical-at-twitter-looks-like/31498 See also: https://blog.twitter.com/2012/euro-2012-recap
- 21. Graphs by: Cornelius Puschmann Data: Twitter Puschmann, C., Weller, K., & Dröge, E. (2011). Studying Twitter conversations as (dynamic) graphs: visualization and structural comparison. Presented at General Online Research, 14-16 March 2011, Düsseldorf, Germany. http://ynada.com/posters/gor11.pdf.
- 24. IMMEDIATENESS 26
- 30. AVAILABILITY 32
- 32. 35 TOP CHALLENGES FOR HISTORIANS AND LIBRARIES
- 33. d DARK AGES? 36
- 34. LOST FOREVER? 37
- 35. LOST FOREVER? 38
- 36. LOST FOREVER? 39
- 39. d TIP OF THE ICEBERG? 43
- 40. THANK YOU!
- 41. QUESTIONS? YES, PLEASE! Slides are available at: http://slideshare.net/katrinweller/ Coming soon: Weller, K. (2015). The digital traces of user-generated content: How social media data may become the historical sources of the future . To appear in Managing Digital Cultural Objects: Analysis, Discovery, Retrieval”, edited by Pauline M. Rafferty and Allen Forster. 45 @kwelle ● katrin.weller@gesis.org ● http://katrinweller.net