Digital Archiving Resources

Social media as part of personal digital archives: exploring users’ practices and service providers’ policies regarding the preservation of digital memories

Title

Social media as part of personal digital archives: exploring users’ practices and service providers’ policies regarding the preservation of digital memories

Subject

Web Archiving

Description

This article explores social media as a means of an everyday civilian’s personal archives through survey data. Through this, a deep analysis is made into how social media companies can implement long-term and permanent digital preservation efforts in order for their users to be able to keep their memories without fear of loss due to the fleetingness of online spaces.

Creator

Beatrice Cannelli
Marta Musso

Publisher

Dordrecht

Date Created

2021

Contributor

Alexis Beadle

Type

Article

Identifier

ISSN: 1389-0166

Bibliographic Citation

Canelli, Beatrice, and Marta Musso. 2022. “Social media as part of personal digital archives: exploring users’ practices and service providers’ policies regarding the preservation of digital memories.” Archival Science 22 (2): 259-283. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-021-09379-8.

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Citation

Beatrice Cannelli and Marta Musso, “Social media as part of personal digital archives: exploring users’ practices and service providers’ policies regarding the preservation of digital memories,” Digital Archiving Resources, accessed May 1, 2024, https://dar.cah.ucf.edu/items/show/519.