This is just a quick note to let our friends know that in collaboration with Rhizome we are hosting a Forum on Ethics and Archiving the Web, March 22–24, 2018 at the New Museum in New York City.
The dramatic rise in the public’s use of the web and social media to document events presents tremendous opportunities to transform social memory practices. As new kinds of archives emerge, there is a pressing need for dialogue about the ethical risks and opportunities that they present to both those documenting and those documented.
We are now accepting proposals for presentations, discussions, case studies on topics such as (but not limited to):
- community-driven web archiving efforts
- documentation of activism
- archiving trauma, violence, and human rights issues
- recognizing and dismantling digital colonialism and white supremacy in web archives
- strategies for protecting users, from one another, from surveillance, or from commercial interests
- design-driven approaches to building values & ethics into web archives
- issues arising when archives become big data or are used for machine learning
There will also be a day for open collaboration on tools, practices and strategies for web archiving. Presenters will receive an honorarium and there is also travel funding available to help folks make it who might otherwise not be able to attend.
Recognizing that ethics and web archiving is a rapidly evolving field and that it might not fit directly into your primary work/research interests we wanted to keep the proposal process simple. We just need 100 words from you about why you would like to be part of the event which you can enter into this form. We hope to see you there!