Curation and Crisis: Curated Crisis Content

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In a networked world, we are increasingly inundated with information from online data streams especially from the social web. Curation has increasingly become the buzzword for managing this problem of information overload in the digital age. However, the applications and interpretations of curation by social web users are varied and often stray away from traditional curator roles. I present seven types of curatorial activities (i.e. collecting, organizing, preserving, filtering, crafting a story, displaying, and facilitating discussions) based on the analysis of 100 web artifacts. I introduce the concept, socially-distributed curation, to emphasize the distributed nature of this curatorial process emerging from the social web. Lastly, I present seven case studies to illustrate preliminary examples of curated crisis content for four crises. These findings are to inform future designs and developments of crisis management tools that could benefit from curated crisis content.

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Curation and Crisis: Curated Crisis Content — Presentation Transcript

Crisis and Curation: The Rise of Curated Crisis Content Sophia B. Liu Technology, Media and Society Program University of Colorado at Boulder

Titanic April 15, 1912

William Yeingst, September 11 Collecting Curator, Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History

“ As curators we have great power to help shape our national memory. It’s a power that we use judiciously and openly. We have the power to determine which objects are saved and whose stories are told.”

Curation as a Profession

“ A person who manages, administers or organizes a collection , either independently or employed by a museum, library, archive or zoo… A content specialist responsible for an institution’s collections.”

Wikipedia and Wiktionary for “curator”

“ Curators direct the acquisition, storage, and exhibition of collections , including negotiating and authorizing the purchase, sale, exchange, or loan of collections. They are also responsible for authenticating, evaluating, and categorizing the specimens in a collection.”

Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2010-11 Edition, Archivists, Curators, and Museum Technicians, on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos065.htm (visited April 26, 2010).

Information Overload + Attention Shortage  Curatorial Dilemma

Research Aims in Two Parts

Part 1: Developing the Curation Construct in a Networked World

Unpacked the meaning of “curation” used in the social web world as a starting point

Developed a theoretical construct on the notion of socially-distributed curation

Searched for blog posts about curation and interviewed professional and everyday curators

Working Model of Today’s Curatorial Activities

Find Aggregate Organize Categorize Preserve Maintain Filter Verify Weave artifacts Craft story Present Arrange Guide Discuss Store Socially-Distributed Curation Select Juxtapose Care for

Find Aggregate Organize Categorize Preserve Maintain Filter Verify Weave artifacts Craft story Present Arrange Guide Discuss Store Juxtapose Care for

Nate Schoman Admin for the 9/11 Truth Facebook Group

“ Immediately after the WTC towers were hit, people began videotaping the news footage of the buildings falling and eyewitness accounts. It got archived and distributed and hosted in several locations. Because it was replicated thousands of times over the internet , that means you cannot erase the truth , which proved to be invaluable. Preservation of information is built into the internet as they get circulated and duplicated, quoted, reworked and formed elsewhere …they tend to take on a life of their own, they can’t disappear, can’t be erased… this archival aspect is the important part.”

“ Over the years, tweets have become part of significant global events around the world— from historic elections to devastating disasters.” - Twitter

Part 2: Examples of Socially-Distributed Curation in Crises

Chose 7 historically significant events over the past 40 years as case studies for my dissertation

Present examples of social media artifacts that show socially-distributed curation in action

Qualitatively analyzed ‘natural documents’ online and interviewed as well as probed relevant participants

Examples of Distributed Curation for 3 Crises

1984 Bhopal Gas Leak

2001 September 11 Attacks

Climate Change Crisis

The Value of Curation in the Crisis Context

Reduce the noise and provide context

Find important, relevant, and reliable information

Be a steward of our history to derive cultural meaning

Learn from history in order to strengthen our resilience to future crises

Why Curation Matters to You…

Deliberate : Need curatorial tools to help with the immediate and long-term effects of a crisis situation

Accidental : Be aware of the potential unintended long-term impacts and consequences of your technologies

Thank You [email_address] @sophiabliu http://sophiabliu.com http://sophiabliu.com/heritageblog Acknowledgements U.S. National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and Grants IIS-0546315 and IIS-0910586

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