“Documenting The Now White Paper Ethical Considerations for Archiving Social Media Content Generated by Contemporary Social Movements: Challenges, Opportunities, and Recommendations“
This paper serves as the SHiFT Collection’s (the group that now owns the tools created by “Documenting the Now”) retrospective on the project as a whole. The project team takes time to reflect on the ethical challenges of collecting data that deals with social justice movements.
Jules, B., Summers, E., & Mitchell, E., Jr. (2018). Documenting The Now White Paper Ethical Considerations for Archiving Social Media Content Generated by Contemporary Social Movements: Challenges, Opportunities, and Recommendations [White Paper]. SHiFT Collective. Documenting+the+Now+White+Paper+FINAL.pdf
“Documenting the Now Is Documenting History”
This article is written by the group that helped fund “Documenting the Now” and gives a good overview of its history, its goals, and the challenges the team had to overcome. It also talks about public reception and collaboration.
Mellon Marketing Team. (2023, March 3). Documenting the Now Is Documenting History. Mellon Foundation. 2025, https://www.mellon.org/grant-story/documenting-the-now-is-documenting-history