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OPLIN 4cast #524: A new kind of archive
January 11th, 2017

[image: Archive button on keyboard] If there was any doubt left that social
media has become hugely important, President-elect Trump’s frequent use of
Twitter has erased it. But Trump will not be the first President to
communicate profusely through social media; that distinction belongs to
Barack Obama, who took office shortly after social media took off.
Typically, when a President leaves office, a special presidential library
is set up to archive the wealth of documents associated with that
administration. But what do you do if so much communication was conducted
on social media? You create a special social media archive.
- Obama’s social archive is available for your perusal
<https://www.engadget.com/2017/01/06/obamas-social-archive-is-available-for-your-perusal/>
(Engadget | Steve Dent)  “To record all that for posterity, the White House
collaborated with ArchiveSocial on the White House Social Media Archive
<http://obamawhitehouse.gov.archivesocial.com/>. It’s a searchable database
of everything Obama and his administration posted on Facebook, Twitter,
Flickr, Instagram and Pinterest over two terms and eight years. It’s hard
to believe now, but Obama’s @POTUS handle (and @FLOTUS and @VP) was only
created recently in May, 2015. Prior to that, Obama had his own
@BarackObama account run by staff, with his own personal tweets signed
‘-bo.’”
- @POTUS tweets headed to Obama social media archive
<http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/obama-tweets-social-media-archive-233245>
(Politico | Alex Byers)  As part of the presidential transition — the first
to occur since the White House became active on social media —
President-elect Donald Trump will obtain access to White House accounts on
Facebook, Twitter and other platforms on Inauguration Day. The accounts
will retain their followings — the @POTUS Twitter handle has more than 11
million followers — but will start with no content on the timelines, the
White House previously said
<https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2016/10/31/digital-transition-how-presidential-transition-works-social-media-age>
.”
- Here’s what the White House will do with everything Obama tweeted
<https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexkantrowitz/here-are-the-creative-ways-the-obama-white-house-will-preser>
(BuzzFeed | Alex Kantrowitz)  Until now, it was possible to scrape Twitter
to get some of this data, but a comprehensive collection of the White
House’s social data wasn’t easily accessible. This new effort it should
make it easier to analyze the president’s social presence. The MIT Media
Lab analysis, for instance, shows that President Obama was tweeting more
about gun control and less about foreign policy and national security than
other election-engaged Twitter users.”
- Obama was too good at social media
<https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/01/did-america-need-a-social-media-president/512405/>
(The Atlantic | Ian Bogost)  As Obama leaves office, the digital tools he
quietly celebrated have also hollowed out American life. Surveillance
capitalism
<http://www.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/495/Bruce-Sterling-and-Jon-Lebkowsky-page02.html#post40>
has made data extraction, aggregation, resale, and speculation the hidden
engine of wealth and progress (for those few fortunate enough to pursue
rather than to be pursued by it). The ability to create and widely
disseminate information as credible and accurate, no matter its
relationship to reality. The obsession with immediacy and attention over
longevity and conviction. The consolidation of media and information,
particularly local media, in the hands of a few large companies with
limited commitment to civic good. While the first social media presidency
was busy tweeting and Snapchatting, supposedly for public engagement, it
did precious little to address the impacts of these and other effects of
technology on the American public as matters of public policy.”

*Articles from Ohio Web Library <http://ohioweblibrary.org>:*

   - The architecture project behind Obama's Chicago presidential library.
   <http://search.ebscohost.com.proxy.oplin.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nfh&AN=6XN201607021314>
   (*Weekend Edition Saturday*, NPR, 07/02/2016)
   - Presidential libraries go online.
   <http://search.ebscohost.com.proxy.oplin.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=cmh&AN=24652750>
   (*American Libraries*, April 2007, p.22-23)
   - Presidential archives: Hype, reality, and limits to access.
   <http://search.ebscohost.com.proxy.oplin.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f5h&AN=25355672>
   (*Information Today*, June 2007, p.1,49-50 | Miriam A. Drake)

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