The Coming Archival Crisis
How Ephemeral Video Disappears Protest Journalism and Threatens Newsreels of Tomorrow
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22010684 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Allissa V Richardson (0000-0002-3165-9401, University of Southern California, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 10 |
| Pages | 1338-1346 |
| Publication date | 2020-11-25 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Digital Journalism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2167-0811 • E-ISSN: 2167-082X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/21670811.2020.1841568 |
| OpenAlex | W3097619644 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 20 |
Today’s Black Lives Matter movement is mediated largely by fortuitous smartphone witnesses and dedicated mobile journalists, who post precious footage to social media platforms that are designed to disappear their content. This has potential long-term consequences for the world’s collective memory of this summer’s global uprising, in the wake of George Floyd’s extrajudicial killing—and beyond. For these reasons, I argue in this article that the next frontier in mobile journalism research will involve finding new ways to archive the millions of protest videos that are uploaded to ephemeral social media sites every day. To achieve this ethically, digital journalism scholars can consider the three “P’s” of protest journalism preservation: precariousness, privacy and platforms
Computer security · Ephemeral key · Frontier · Internet privacy · Journalism · Media studies · Political science · Social media · Sociology · Upload · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Digital Games and Media · Law · Media Studies and Communication · Social Media and Politics
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Ephemeral Journalism
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |