Counter-archiving Facebook

Ben-David, Anat

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“…Second, an important limitation to be considered is the fact that researchers mainly rely on the free API access to platforms that put the access to data in the hands of the social media tech companies (Boyd and Crawford, 2012). Finally, if we are to accept that Facebook functions as one of the archons of data colonialism (Couldry et al, 2018), then alternative research methods need to emerge to resister colonial power, such as ‘counter-mapping’ and ‘counter-archiving’ (Ben-David, 2020) to decolonize the digital and what remains.…”

Section: Limitationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Creta

2021

Media, War & Conflict

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Situated at the intersection of digital migration studies, social movement studies and critical citizenship studies, this article explores how people on the move (migrants, refugees) in Libya use digital media to raise rights violations and to challenge European Union (EU) policies and UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) practices. To examine how digital media provide a ‘space of appearance’ for people on the move in Libya, the study presents a qualitative thematic analysis of 49 posts and 986 comments published on the official Facebook page of UNHCR Libya between January 2018 and January 2019. Major themes include criticisms of UNHCR services and EU policies as well as the raising of human rights issues surrounding detention and evacuation. The findings contribute to a deeper understanding of how digital media enable people on the move to raise rights claims, contest official narratives and become active narrators of their individual struggles with the system of control and exclusion that is so deeply embedded in the discourse of securitized humanitarian care at Europe’s border. At the same time, it highlights how issues of digital access and communicative capacity influence visibility and self-expression in the digital space of appearances.

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Section: Limitationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Creta

2021

Media, War & Conflict

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“…Therefore, web archives become a contemporary archeion, analogous to the location of public records in ancient Greece, from which the word archive originates. However, although some platforms, like Facebook, may be seen as new archeions, they are actually unarchivable by design (Ben-David, 2020).…”

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Climate change and web archives: an Ibero-American study based on the Portuguese and Brazilian contexts

Rockembach

Serrano

2021

RMJ

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Purpose The purpose of this investigation is to analyze information on the web and its preservation as a digital heritage, having as object of study information about events related to climate changes and the environment in Portugal and Brazil, thus contributing to an applied case of preservation of web in the Ibero-American context. Design/methodology/approach It is a theoretical and applied investigation and the methodology uses mixed methods, collecting and analyzing quantitative and qualitative data, from three data sources: the Internet Archive and public collections of Archive-it, the Portuguese web archive and a complementation from collections formed by the research group on web archiving and digital preservation in Brazil. Findings The web archiving initiatives started in 1996, however, over the years, the collections have been specializing, from nationally relevant themes, to thematic niches. The theme “climate changes” has had an impact on scientific and mainstream discussions in the 2000s, and in the years 2010 the theme becomes the focus of digital preservation of web content, as demonstrated in this study. To not preserve data can lead to a rapid loss of this information owing to the ephemerality of the web. Originality/value The originality of this paper is to show the relevance of preserving web content on climate changes, to demonstrate information on climate changes on the web that is currently preserved and what information would need to be preserved.

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“…By counter-archives we effectively mean alternative sources, which allow us to tell counter-narratives that conventional archives cannot tell (Stiftung (2019)). Ben-David (2020:251) introduces “counter-archiving as a method of dissent that borrows from epistemic responses to colonial archives”.…”

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Building counter-archives: Oral history programmes of the Sinomlando Centre and Memory Work in Africa and the South African History Archive

Bhebhe

Ngoepe

2021

Information Development

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Counter-archives, including those aligned to universities, have grown and developed as alternatives to the conventional and traditional mainstream archives. The purpose of this paper is to look into how such counter-archives are building and using their holdings. The study is based on two purposively selected counter-archives, which are the Sinomlando Centre and Memory Work in Africa and South African History Archive. The data were collected through interviews and document analysis, especially of the respective websites. One of the conclusions drawn from the paper is that counter-archives are here to stay as the general public is losing confidence in established traditional institutions.

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Counter-archiving Facebook

Cited by 20 publications

References 29 publications

I hope, one day, I will have the right to speak

I hope, one day, I will have the right to speak

Climate change and web archives: an Ibero-American study based on the Portuguese and Brazilian contexts

Building counter-archives: Oral history programmes of the Sinomlando Centre and Memory Work in Africa and the South African History Archive

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