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Social Change through Social Media – Women’s March on Washington
On January 21st, 2017, the Women’s March on Washington protest took place all around the world to protect women’s rights after the inauguration of Trump. They protested women’s rights along with immigration reform, health care reform, the natural environment, LGBQT rights, racial equality, freedom of religion and workers’ rights. The march was a stand against…
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Social Media Abuse
Until few years ago, you had to use laptops or Desktops to access to internet. Now, almost everyone has a cell phone and access to internet. In the past, having a phone number was very essential. Now, having access to internet seems to be very important. Most of payments, communications, social medias, news, registrations are…
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The Pains of Making Social Media Woke
In the last year, social justice activism on social media platforms has exploded. This activism is obviously largely in response to the rise of competing anti-establishment wings in the political sphere and the highly publicized gratuitous deaths of black people. Currently popular “woke” hashtags like #NoBanNoWall and #MuslimBan are being circulated by primarily…
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Social Media: The Hidden Labor
The rise of the Internet has allowed for near instantaneous communication throughout the world. Just like any other form of communications, the internet allows for the spread of ideas and values between groups. In some ways, social media is a concentrated form of this. Designed for people to connect with one another and discuss their…
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Hashtags – Internet’s Largest Crowdsourcing Project?
Monica Anderson and Paul Hitlin, in their article “Social Media Conversations About Race,” provide an overview of a Pew Research Center survey that examined how social media users see, share and discuss race, as well as the rise of hashtags like #BlackLivesMatter. Anderson and Hitlin point out that Black social media users are almost twice…
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Games Create Steps Toward a Larger Goal
The MetaData Games Project, the National open source crowdsourcing game platform, is a website where you play fun, interactive games in order to create tags for images, or video that are at risk for being lost otherwise. You create these tags by coming up with descriptive words for the image, audio, or video. The words that you…
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Crowdsourcing – the Not So Stupid Bot
The digital activism project that I recently contributed to through crowdsourcing was Stupid Robot by Metadata Games. Metadata Games emerged out of the Dartmouth College based game research laboratory Tiltfactor, whose chief objective is to design games for social impact and learning. Today, Metadata Games is the National Standard open source crowdsourcing game platform, comprised…
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National Archives: The “Citizen Archivist”
I participated in part of a National Archives project as a “Citizens Archivist”. The National Archives, formally known as the National Archives and Records Administration, is an agency of the US government which preserves and documents government and historical records and attempts to increase public access to those records. Now obviously, once upon a time…
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Digital Archive over Standard Library
Libraries provide great sources of information through the articles, records, and books that they contain. These items are all physical and are finite within a library’s complex. The problem with this is that there is a limitation placed on all of the readers who would like access to these sources at the same time. Most…
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An Archivist walks into a Digital Humanities bar….
When reading about databases in Micheal Christie’s Computer Databases and Aboriginal Knowledge, I didn’t even comtemplate the concept of an an archive becuase my mind categorized the two of them as the same thing. This was especially because Christie tries to portray the cultural significance and rawness that a database has. A definition put together from his words…