Web Archiving as Civic Duty
March 22, 2018 at the New Museum, New York
eaw.rhizome.org
In this panel, we grapple with the ways in which researchers, archivists, civically engaged citizens, and grassroots activists can keep track of the official public record, even as government agencies seek to delete, destroy, and dissemble it. We look at unique challenges that archivists face in unearthing and preserving federal websites, government social media platforms, environmental data, and born-digital military documents. Together and with an eye towards the future, we reflect on the ways in which web archives and data are understood, (re)imagined, and contested.
Amelia Acker (co-moderator)
Assistant Professor, School of Information, The University of Texas at Austin
Natalie Baur
Digital Preservation Librarian, El Colegio de México
Adam Kriesberg (co-moderator)
College of Information Studies, University of Maryland
Muira McCammon
Freelance journalist, war crimes researcher, and PhD student, Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania
Hanna E. Morris
PhD Student, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
Stacy Wood (co-moderator)
Assistant Professor, School of Computing and Information, University of Pittsburgh
