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- Title
TOPLUMSAL HAREKETLER BAĞLAMINDA SOSYAL MEDYA ARŞİVLERİNİN TOPLUMSAL BELLEĞİN İNŞASINDAKİ ROLÜ.
- Authors
EYREK, Aysun; ÇETİN, Belgin
- Abstract
Internet and social media have become a sphere that individuals use to obtain information, interact with each other, and express their grievances to the social events. A vast amount of information is created and shared each day on digital media such as social media, websites. Some of this information is deleted or not accessed due to technical and economic reasons. Digital archive activists claim that there may be historical documents among the inaccessible information. Hence, these would enlighten on today's history in the future, and therefore the information should be preserved and stored for a long time. These are characterized with the recording of data created on the internet, the storage of information by gathering it, long-term storage, and the ensuring future use of collected data. The aim of this paper is to explain the role of social media archives in the construction of collective memory, based on the concept of digital memory. The study focuses on social media archives of social movements, Documenting the Now (DocNow) that is a digital archival activist. This study investigates the role of their archival works on collective memory of social movements. The study in which the digital ethnography was used, concludes that the social media archives are significant of part of construction of collective memory, have the potential to serve understanding today's society at the future.
- Publication
Beykoz Akademi Dergisi, 2021, Vol 9, Issue 2, p173
- ISSN
2147-8082
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.14514/BYK.m.26515393.2021.9/2.173-191