{"id":1160,"date":"2014-02-17T10:30:54","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T15:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archivesmouse.wordpress.com\/?p=194"},"modified":"2014-11-21T16:35:24","modified_gmt":"2014-11-21T21:35:24","slug":"facebook-as-a-multimodal-diary-for-future-biographers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wrpg211\/2014\/02\/17\/facebook-as-a-multimodal-diary-for-future-biographers\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook as a Multimodal Diary for Future Biographers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2014\/2\/4\/5376396\/facebook-look-back-video-lets-you-relive-the-last-ten-years-of-your-online-life\">Facebook celebrated 10 years online<\/a> by creating the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lookback\">&#8220;A Look Back&#8221;<\/a> feature. \u00a0This specialized web page pulls images, posts, status updates, relationship changes, and a number of other data types from your public profile, and compiles them into a cute video, all with a catchy tune and cued transitions. \u00a0Anyone can access and their share their videos, which cover all of their time on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p><span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='700' height='424' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AWoBAjovHT4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;%23038;fs=1&#038;%23038;showsearch=0&#038;%23038;showinfo=1&#038;%23038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;%23038;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen='true'><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Facebook is not the first developer to create tools allowing people to sort through their social media data. \u00a0Applications such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/myyearinstatus?ref=br_tf\">My Year in Status<\/a> can also pull together the massive amounts of data stored on your Facebook profile. \u00a0Websites such as <a href=\"https:\/\/storify.com\/\">Storify <\/a>allow you to go one step further, uniting content from multiple social media outlets into a single &#8220;story.&#8221; \u00a0All of these sites demonstrate our interest in reviewing our own recent history, as well as the history of those around us. \u00a0These tools are popular not only with people, but also with corporations and organizations. \u00a0The White House even has a Storify story for the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Patient_Protection_and_Affordable_Care_Act\">Affordable Care Act<\/a>, which you can find <a href=\"https:\/\/storify.com\/whitehouse\/acavalentines-share-yours\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 546px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www7.pcmag.com\/media\/images\/416722-facebook-a-look-back.jpg?thumb=y\" width=\"540\" height=\"304\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Facebook&#8217;s &#8220;A Look Back&#8221; feature is making waving across the huge social media site. Image: pcmag.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>My curiosity leads me to wonder how these tools and applications will become helpful to future researchers, biographers, and genealogists, who will have access to an almost limitless pool of information and metadata about a large cross-section of the population. \u00a0Any kind of data reviewing tool could possibly be developed into a better, more efficient form of sorting through social media information, and the software that ultimately can organize, sort, and (most importantly) <strong><em>preserve<\/em> <\/strong>this information will be extremely successful.<\/p>\n<p>As people enjoy the benefits of cute and playful applications combining huge aggregates of data, information specialists and digital archivists should be looking towards the future task of preserving and interpreting the immense banks of metadata recorded through the digital time-capsules that are social media sites.<\/p>\n<p><strong>See also:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2014\/2\/4\/5376396\/facebook-look-back-video-lets-you-relive-the-last-ten-years-of-your-online-life\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2014\/2\/4\/5376396\/facebook-look-back-video-lets-you-relive-the-last-ten-years-of-your-online-life<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/article2\/0,2817,2430513,00.asp\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/article2\/0,2817,2430513,00.asp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/archivesmouse.wordpress.com\/194\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/archivesmouse.wordpress.com\/194\/\" \/><\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.wp.com\/b.gif?host=archivesmouse.wordpress.com&#038;blog=58094777&#038;%23038;post=194&#038;%23038;subd=archivesmouse&#038;%23038;ref=&#038;%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, Facebook celebrated 10 years online by creating the &ldquo;A Look Back&rdquo; feature. &nbsp;This specialized web page pulls images, posts, status updates, relationship changes, and a number of other data types from your public profile, and compiles them into a cute video, all with a catchy tune and cued transitions. &nbsp;Anyone can access and their&hellip;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.wp.com\/b.gif?host=archivesmouse.wordpress.com&amp;blog=58094777&amp;post=194&amp;subd=archivesmouse&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wrpg211\/2014\/02\/17\/facebook-as-a-multimodal-diary-for-future-biographers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1886,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[109722],"tags":[81907,89320,14920,89332,81908,24317,89333,109703],"class_list":["post-1160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-blog-project-2013","tag-archives-in-the-news","tag-changing-technologies","tag-facebook","tag-media-type-audio-visual","tag-popular-culture","tag-social-media","tag-storify","tag-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wrpg211\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wrpg211\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wrpg211\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wrpg211\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1886"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wrpg211\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wrpg211\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wrpg211\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wrpg211\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wrpg211\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}