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Tweeting The Government: Preliminary Findings From A Genre Analysis Of Canadian Federal Government Tweets, Elizabeth M. Shaffer, Luanne Freund, Mackenzie Welch
Tweeting The Government: Preliminary Findings From A Genre Analysis Of Canadian Federal Government Tweets, Elizabeth M. Shaffer, Luanne Freund, Mackenzie Welch
Elizabeth M. Shaffer
Social media is rapidly becoming an integral part of the Canadian Federal Government’s communication plan. Its use has been institutionalized with the adoption of the Guidelines for External Use of Web 2.0, which provides policy guidelines for government agencies on using social media tools. Twitter, a microblogging site, has rapidly gained popularity with Canadian government agencies. The primary purpose of this research is to identify the communicative intents behind federal government agencies’ use of Twitter. A random set of 2,000 tweets were collected over a one month period in 2012 and were coded using a schema derived from both relevant …
Preserving Social Media: Opening A Multi-Disciplinary Dialogue, Lisa P. Nathan, Elizabeth M. Shaffer
Preserving Social Media: Opening A Multi-Disciplinary Dialogue, Lisa P. Nathan, Elizabeth M. Shaffer
Elizabeth M. Shaffer
Digital artefacts generated through use of social media tools= have potential long-term value to individuals, organizations and societies. If there is a desire to systematically collect and preserve accounts of daily life, government activities, and societies’ documentary heritage, archival approaches must account for changing information systems—the tools, policies, and practices through which we engage in the contemporary information ecosystem. Through this paper we argue that in light of the growing complexity of digital information practices, particularly in relation to the use of social media, archivists need look to the scholarship of design and planning, in particular the work of human …
Heritage, Records & Trust: Understanding SocietyʼS Past Through Social Media?, Elizabeth M. Shaffer, Lisa P. Nathan
Heritage, Records & Trust: Understanding SocietyʼS Past Through Social Media?, Elizabeth M. Shaffer, Lisa P. Nathan
Elizabeth M. Shaffer
The relationship between the archival concept of the record requires examination and analysis in a social media context. If there is a desire to systematically collect and preserve accounts of daily life, archival theory must account for changing information systems, both the tools and the practices through which we engage them. At the same time system designers need to draw upon contemporary archival theory. The field of human computer interaction is uniquely positioned to work with archivists to both inform archival theory and to be informed by archival theory in recognition of the longer-term, multi-lifespan functions information systems play in …
Book Review—Clio Wired: The Future Of The Past In The Digital Age, Elizabeth M. Shaffer
Book Review—Clio Wired: The Future Of The Past In The Digital Age, Elizabeth M. Shaffer
Elizabeth M. Shaffer
Clio Wired: The Future of the Past in the Digital Age is a collection of eleven essays that takes its title from history’s muse, Clio, and is authored (some articles are co-authored) by the late American historian Roy Rosenzweig, founding director of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University in Virginia. The Center uses digital media and technology to advance history education and research and investigates their impact on history education, research, dissemination, and preservation. The essays examine and explore the impact that digital media, in particular the Internet, have had on history—from research and teaching …
Records Governance In Enterprise 2.0: Toward An Archival Understanding Of Social Media (Poster), Elizabeth M. Shaffer, Luciana Duranti
Records Governance In Enterprise 2.0: Toward An Archival Understanding Of Social Media (Poster), Elizabeth M. Shaffer, Luciana Duranti
Elizabeth M. Shaffer
Social media are consistently evolving with the ever-increasing ability to combine tools and information to create new forms of documents that can pose challenges to traditional paradigms and raise questions of intellectual property, privacy and confidentiality, authorship and ownership.