The Ethics of Digital Folklore
March 23, 2018 at the New Museum, New York
eaw.rhizome.org
Image macros, photos of kittens, and other vernacular forms–created by users, for users–are the most important, beautiful, and misunderstood aspects of internet culture. Digital folklore raises particular ethical issues for archivists and researchers in that users’ labor is treated as data fodder, attribution and permission are difficult to establish, and what gets celebrated and remembered tends to replicate existing cultural biases.
Frances Corry
Doctoral Student, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, USC
Dragan Espenschied (moderator)
Preservation Director, Rhizome
Ruth Gebreyesus
Writer & Producer
Ian Milligan
Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Waterloo
Ari Spool
Community Operations Manager, GIPHY
