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Looking Forwards
Looking Forwards
Recent changes to the Twitter API have seriously impacted DocNow’s tools. Here’s how we are moving forward.
Ed Summers
Jul 19, 2023
Introducing DocNow 1.0
Introducing DocNow 1.0
Documenting the Now announces the release of DocNow, an application for appraising, collecting, and gathering consent for Twitter content.
Zakiya Collier
Apr 4, 2022
Counting Tweets
Counting Tweets
Today Twitter released a new API endpoint that allows you to fetch the number of tweets that match a query (like a hashtag) over time.
Ed Summers
Jun 24, 2021
Documenting Events
Documenting Events
From its early adopters in 2007 at SXSW to its use today by journalists around the world, Twitter has always been a social media platform…
Ed Summers
Jun 1, 2021
twarc2
twarc2
twarc has been redesigned from the ground up to work with the new Twitter v2 API and their Academic Research track. Many thanks for the…
Ed Summers
Apr 7, 2021
Trump’s Tweets
Trump’s Tweets
TLDR: Trump’s tweets are gone from twitter.com but still exist spectrally in various states all over the web. After profiting off of their…
Ed Summers
Jan 21, 2021
Disinformation Metadata
Disinformation Metadata
Ilya Kreymer recently asked a question over in Documenting the Now Slack about Twitter’s API data and whether it includes metadata for…
Ed Summers
Sep 2, 2020
Instagram, Social Action and Archives
Instagram, Social Action and Archives
Dianne Weinthal is a recent graduate of the UCLA MLIS program, and has been working with a few members of her cohort on criteria to…
Ed Summers
Aug 7, 2020
Archiving Protests, Protecting Activists
Archiving Protests, Protecting Activists
Join Documenting the Now in conversation with WITNESS, Blackivists, Texas After Violence Project, and Project STAND.
Bergis Jules
Jun 17, 2020
Introducing The Catalog v2
Introducing The Catalog v2
If you’ve been following our work for the past few years you may have occasionally seen us mention something called the Catalog. The…
Ed Summers
Apr 16, 2020
Appraising COVID-19
Appraising COVID-19
What might efforts to archive the COVID-19 web teach us about ways to document our appraisal decisions when archiving the web?
Ed Summers
Apr 1, 2020
Documenting Activism Now
Documenting Activism Now
In December 2017, the Documenting the Now project hosted Digital Blackness in the Archive at the Ferguson Public Library in Ferguson, MO…
Bergis Jules
Dec 6, 2019
Designing for Consent
Designing for Consent
Many thanks to the Congrés d’Arxivística de Catalunya for the invitation to come and talk about social media archives and the Documenting…
Ed Summers
May 10, 2019
A Twitter ToS Deep Dive with Justin Littman
A Twitter ToS Deep Dive with Justin Littman
Documenting Social Media Datasets #7: March 19, 10–11 AM ET
Ed Summers
Mar 7, 2019
Streams
Streams
How do we design data collection systems and interfaces to better reflect uncertainty?
Ed Summers
Feb 8, 2019
Towards Building Community-Based Archives of Activism
Towards Building Community-Based Archives of Activism
Stories from the Live Streamers Documenting Modern-Day Social Justice Movements
Bergis Jules
Jan 31, 2019
Ingesting Social Media at GESIS with Katrin Weller & Shawn Walker
Ingesting Social Media at GESIS with Katrin Weller & Shawn Walker
Documenting Social Media Datasets #6: Feb 13, 12–1 PM ET
Ed Summers
Jan 31, 2019
Remembering Bassem Masri
Remembering Bassem Masri
If you have any information about backups of Bassem Masri’s live footage from Ferguson please get in touch at info@docnow.io.
Ed Summers
Dec 3, 2018
SOMAR with Libby Hemphill
SOMAR with Libby Hemphill
Documenting Social Media Datasets #5: December 10, 1PM EST
Ed Summers
Nov 19, 2018
Documenting Social Media Datasets #4
Documenting Social Media Datasets #4
November 7, 10–11 AM EST
Ed Summers
Oct 17, 2018
Documenting the Now Phase 2
Documenting the Now Phase 2
With a $1.2 Million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities in the College of…
Ed Summers
Oct 16, 2018
STEP: DocSocData 3
STEP: DocSocData 3
In the next installment of our semi-regular group calls about documenting social media datasets on September 28 at 10am ET we will be…
Ed Summers
Sep 13, 2018
AoIR Ethics Guidelines: DocSocData 2
AoIR Ethics Guidelines: DocSocData 2
A few weeks ago we held a community call to discuss documenting social media datasets, with a specific focus on Twitter. 25 people from…
Ed Summers
Aug 6, 2018
Documenting the Now Ethics White Paper
Documenting the Now Ethics White Paper
by Bergis Jules and Ed Summers
Ed Summers
Jul 19, 2018
Documenting Social Media Datasets
Documenting Social Media Datasets
Join us for an online conversation about documenting Twitter datasets, to encourage ethical practices for data publishing and reuse. If…
Ed Summers
Jul 16, 2018
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