Article
Preserving the Voices of Revolution: Examining the Creation and Preservation of a Subject-Centered Collection of Tweets from the Eighteen Days in Egypt 公开 Deposited
- Abstract
In 2011, Hosni Mubarak abdicated his position of president-for-life after peaceful protests across Egypt. Demonstrators in these protests used social media platforms like Twitter to communicate directly with a global audience, but tweets are ephemeral and there are no standards or best practices for their collection and preservation. Using the revolution in Egypt as a case study, this paper serves as a guide to collection developers who are interested in collecting subject-centered collections of tweets. We will discuss how to collect tweets using Twitter's application programming interface (API) as well as collection development issues related to Twitter's role in the Egyptian revolution. These issues include determining the scope of the collection, quantitative and qualitative collection methods, separating signal from noise, and navigating vernacular and formal languages. We will consider the Twitter platform from an archival perspective and discuss best practice in archiving a collection of tweets. To present the kinds of materials that a subject-centered collection of tweets might include, we will conclude with a brief examination of tweets collected during the eighteen-day revolution in Egypt.
- Creator
- Date Issued
- 2014-12-10
- Academic Affiliation
- Journal Title
- Journal Issue/Number
- 2
- Journal Volume
- 77
- File Extent
- 510-533
- Subject
- 最新修改
- 2020-10-09
- Resource Type
- 权利声明
- DOI
- ISSN
- 0360-9081
- Language
关联
单件
缩略图 | 标题 | 上传日期 | 公开度 | 行动 |
---|---|---|---|---|
preservingTheVoicesOfRevolutionExaminingTheCreationAndP.pdf | 2019-12-06 | 公开 | 下载 |