Goals & Audiences

Goal #1: To archive digital activism on social media.

Goal #2: To support ethical collection, use and preservation public content on digital platforms and social media for content consumers.

Audiences: Individuals studying social media use and trends and activists.

How Do these Goals Relate to DH Goals?

  • Preserve and protect cultural data- although Twitter is no longer a digital platform, this project has preserved and protected tweets by archiving them and placing them in respective data sets.
  • Publish and provide access to cultural data- archivists and social media researchers have complete access to these tweets through Documenting the Now.