Archives, activism and social media: building networks for effective collaboration and ethical practice

摘要

The 'Archives, Activism and Social Media: Building Networks for Effective Collaboration and Ethical Practice' workshop ran on 21 and 22 September 2017 at the University of Cambridge's Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities and was supported by the UK's Arts and Humanities Research Council. The workshop was organised by the Cambridge Digital Humanities Network in collaboration with the 'Documenting the Now' (DocNow) project.1 The workshop aimed to bring seemingly diverse practitioners together from archives and activist organisations to explore the issues of archiving and preserving content from social media and the Internet, both as future cultural resources and as semi-current records that act as a memory to sustain the work of activist and protest organisations. The workshop had three aims. The first was to build communities of practice around the ethical and technical challenges in archiving born-digital social movement data. The second was sharing awareness of how to use specific methodologies, tools and services for producing and using archives of born-digital activist materials. The third was to foster cross-cultural dialogue by bringing activists and archivists from different regions of the world together for in-person conversation and network building.