The Center for Research Libraries Global Resources Initiative is currently studying how NGOs and archiving institutions collect, manage and preserve digital human rights documentation, including blogs, social media, and video and other media from mobile devices; the project is described in significant depth on The Documentalist, the project’s blog.
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September 17, 2009
Human Rights Electronic Evidence Study
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Tags: archives, documentation, human rights, mobile phones, social media, technology
July 15, 2009
New Media History and Research on Rights, War, and Memory
From researcher and guest blogger Karl Arthur Baumann, currently doing research and interviews here at WITNESS, about his project:
The recent events in Iran have proven once again the potency and conscience raising capabilities of current communications technologies, vis a vis Youtube, Facebook, and Twitter. But to what extent have they created active responses? The Obama [...]
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Tags: citizen media, history, memory, new media, social media, video, war, WITNESS Hub, WITNESS Media Archive
April 30, 2009
Citizen Archivists: MiT6 Notes, part 2
Another thematic thread from MIT6, MIT’s Media in Transition conference, highlighted by Rick Prelinger (Prelinger Library, Prelinger Archives) at the 2nd plenary, Archives and History.
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Tags: archives, archivists, citizen archivist, documentation, Media in Transition 6, MIT6, preservation, social media
April 28, 2009
Immediacy & Persistence: MIT6 Notes part 1
I spent last Friday Saturday and a bit of Sunday at MIT 6, the 6th biennial Media in Transition gathering convened by MIT’s Comparative Media Studies (CMS) program.
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Tags: archives, archivists, digital archives, digital preservation, digitization, media, MIT6, social media, social networking
