{"id":62,"date":"2025-09-14T22:13:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T22:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/HHDocNow\/?page_id=62"},"modified":"2025-09-29T19:25:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T19:25:39","slug":"digital-project","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/HHDocNow\/digital-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.docnow.io\/\">Documenting the Now<\/a> is a project created after protests were rising in 2014. Co-Principal Investigators Dr. Meredith Clark, Bergis Jules, Ed Summers, community manager, Zakiya Collier, UX and Web Designer, Alexandera Dolan-Mescal, and DevOps Engineer, Francis Kayiwa, understood the importance of keeping digital history therefore created the project in 2016 help preserve it. According to a blog post from <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/documenting-docnow\/looking-forwards-64cee8436640\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/documenting-docnow\/looking-forwards-64cee8436640\">medium<\/a> DocNow is<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">a web application for collecting Twitter data and obtaining consent from content creators<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">DocNow also has support groups, work shops, and online community which all discuss and teach activists the importance and how to document their work and opinion. The project responds to the use of social media for historically significant events as well as demand from scholars seeking  and preserving digital content. Unfortunately after Elon Musk bought Twitter in 2022 the changes made in API have resulted in the dismantling of DocNow\u2019s tools. Causing it to no longer working and useless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Team<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Co-Principal Investigators: Dr. Meredith Clark, Bergis Jules, Ed Summers<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Community Manager: Zakiya Collier<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Web Designer: Alexandera Dolan-Mescal<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">DevOps Engineer: Francis Kayiwa<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Research Goals<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">This project was used to help save and preserve media. Some research goals include involve communities, Social Media Archiving, create different tools, and to preserve key events. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Research Questions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Doc Now explores different questions. The project wants to know, how should have access to archived social media data? How does society want their digital presence to be remembered? And finally, what tools be designed to support archiving social media data?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Image below is of one of the three meetings where they discuss issues and social media and web archiving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hannah9614.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/eaw.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-62\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Documenting the Now is a project created after protests were rising in 2014. Co-Principal Investigators Dr. Meredith Clark, Bergis Jules, Ed Summers, community manager, Zakiya Collier, UX and Web Designer, Alexandera Dolan-Mescal, and DevOps Engineer, Francis Kayiwa, understood the importance of keeping digital history therefore created the project in 2016 help preserve it. 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