Social Media Archives and the Ethics of Documenting Social Movement

Bergis Jules

Archivist

University of California, Riverside

Before Professor Bergis Jules began with thee talk, he started with showing us how African American teenagers are the highest group of using social media, especially Twitter. Challenges appeared as activists when they documented the movement, for example is where they need to learn more if they collecting social media. Report says that the CIS had Angle Funding for social media data mining. “The investments appear to reflects the CIA’s increasing focus as monitoring social media” –The intercept. One particular site appeared more often is Geofeedia which is an app that would give you a lot of headlines like how the Seattle Police illegally purchase ACLU. This type of surveillance might danger the colored people sine it is targeted to them which surprised the impact of social abuse. One of threats were shown in the site was the Threat Actors. This showed how DeRay McKesson and Johnetta “Netta” Elzie who appeared in The Baltimore Rising after the shot of am police officer. These are connected with the site that updated and categorized them as the Threat Artists, these would also be a business for selling their profile to threat the movement of Ferguson. Not Twitter is included in the library of congress, we can check our complete log from them. But on the other hand, to fix all these problems we need to engaged directly with people instead of online, because collecting datas affects them directly