Social media play an increasingly significant role in activist and social movements around
the globe. Archiving social media is a relatively new phenomenon and an area which needs …

The rise in popularity and ubiquity of social media has led to an increase in archival
collection of social media data. Collecting and preserving this data is a relatively new …

Abstract In the Web 2.0 Era, most social media archives are born digital and large-scale.
With an increasing need for processing them at a fast speed, researchers and archivists …

While new research in social media holds great potential for new understanding, in the rush
to exploit this new source of data we must not overlook the importance of ensuring long-term …

The availability and scale of social media data offer researchers new opportunities to
leverage those data for their work in broad areas such as public opinion, digital culture …

Social media data (SMD) offer researchers new opportunities to leverage those data for their
work in broad areas such as public opinion, digital culture, labor trends, and public health …

Purpose Social media posts have been an integral part of our society's communication and
serve purposes from the personal to the national, from the mundane to the silly to the …

In the era of digital and online activism, archivists have taken on the challenge of collecting
and preserving the records of activist groups on social media. Social media offers users a …

WHY ARCHIVE SOCIAL MEDIA? TO some this might seem either futile or unnecessary: as
an individual you cannot possibly capture it all, and anyway, isn't someone probably already …

The slides below were presented as a webinar for the Research Data Archiving and
Preservation Association (RDAP) on June 3, 2021. The abstract below describes the …