The seminar is entitled, "Using Web Archives to Document Social Movements and Disinformation - Practice, Ethics, and Challenges" and will be hosted in B001 Geddes Hall, Andrews Auditorium.
Abstract:
Web archives are becoming increasingly important for researchers and journalists wanting to preserve and study current events, including evidence of disinformation. However, there have been ethical concerns raised about archiving materials that might later be used to cause harm, such as first-hand accounts of protests or social media posts from non-public figures. In addition, social media platforms and other dynamic websites can be difficult to archive faithfully due to their heavy use of JavaScript and client-side rendering. In this talk, I will provide an overview of web archiving and discuss potential ethical concerns and technical challenges, highlighting research from the Web Science and Digital Libraries (WS-DL) group at Old Dominion University.
Dr. Michele C. Weigle is a Professor of Computer Science at Old Dominion University. Her research interests include web science, social media, web archiving, and information visualization. She has published over 115 articles in peer-reviewed conferences and journals and has served as PI or Co-PI on external research grants totaling $6M from a wide range of funders, including the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Department of Defense, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. She currently serves on the steering committee for the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) and the editorial boards of the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) and the International Journal on Digital Libraries (IJDL). Dr. Weigle received her PhD in computer science from the University of North Carolina in 2003. For more information, visit https://weiglemc.github.io/
Originally published at lucyinstitute.nd.edu.