Twitter as a First Draft of the Present - and the Challenges of Preserving It for the Future

被引：26

作者：

Bruns, Axel ^{[1
]}

Weller, Katrin ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] Queensland Univ Technol, Digital Media Res Ctr, Brisbane, Qld 4001, Australia

[2] GESIS Leibniz Inst Social Sci, Computat Social Sci, Mannheim, Germany

来源：

PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2016 ACM WEB SCIENCE CONFERENCE (WEBSCI'16) | 2016年

关键词：

Twitter; social media; user-generated content; cultural heritage; archiving; history; historical sources;

D O I：

10.1145/2908131.2908174

中图分类号：

TP [自动化技术、计算机技术];

学科分类号：

0812 ;

摘要：

This paper provides a framework for understanding Twitter as a historical source. We address digital humanities scholars to enable the transfer of concepts from traditional source criticism to new media formats, and to encourage the preservation of Twitter as a cultural artifact. Twitter has established itself as a key social media platform which plays an important role in public, real-time conversation. Twitter is also unique as its content is being archived by a public institution (the Library of Congress). In this paper we will show that we still have to assume that much of the contextual information beyond the pure tweet texts is already lost, and propose additional objectives for preservation.

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页码：183 / 189

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