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dc.contributor.authorGibbons, Leisa
dc.date.accessioned2020-03-16T02:37:17Z
dc.date.available2020-03-16T02:37:17Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier.citationGibbons, L. 2019. Connecting personal and community memory-making: Facebook Groups as emergent community archives, in Proceedings of the = Australasian Conference on Research Applications in Information and Library Studies (RAILS) - Engaging Research - Collaboration and Community, Nov 28-30 2018, Monash University, Caulfield Campus, Faculty Information Technology, Melbourne, Australia: University of Borås, Sweden.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/78268
dc.description.abstract

Introduction: Facebook groups provide spaces for 'emergent community archives' where individuals document and share community memory and identity. This paper asks what stories are being told about personal and community memory-making by the existence of these emergent community archives? Method: Criteria identifying emergent community archives was applied in search for Facebook groups related to Western Australia. In total, twenty-seven groups were found, fourteen public and thirteen closed. Analysis: The Facebook groups were analysed using narrative analysis techniques that ask questions about how, where, and to whom the story is told, what types of stories are being told, what patterns or features do the stories have, and what larger discourses or narratives are being encountered or communicated. Results: Activities in Facebook groups show a patterning around how stories are told. Choices made about how to represent a group identity and memory are generally limited due to the functionality of Facebook platform. Overall, the primary story being told concerns Facebook's control over memory-making and how the Group system promotes a fragmented community memory. Conclusions: Fragmented memories do not allow or provide a sense of how long people expect the groups to exist or what role they might play over time. The second stage research will ask Facebook Group administrators their reasons, expectations and requirements for community memory-making.

dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherUNIV SHEFFIELD DEPT INFORMATION STUDIES
dc.relation.urihttp://www.informationr.net/ir/24-3/rails/rails1804.html
dc.subjectScience & Technology
dc.subjectTechnology
dc.subjectInformation Science & Library Science
dc.subjectCULTURE
dc.subjectHISTORY
dc.titleConnecting personal and community memory-making: Facebook Groups as emergent community archives
dc.typeConference Paper
dcterms.source.volume24
dcterms.source.number3
dcterms.source.issn1368-1613
dcterms.source.titleInformation Research-An International Electronic Journal
dcterms.source.conferenceAustralasian Conference on Research Applications in Information and Library Studies (RAILS) - Engaging Research - Collaboration and Community
dcterms.source.conference-start-date28 Nov 2018
dcterms.source.conferencelocationMohash Univ, Caulfield Campus, Fac Informat Technol, Melbourne, Australia
dc.date.updated2020-03-16T02:37:17Z
curtin.departmentSchool of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry
curtin.accessStatusOpen access via publisher
curtin.facultyFaculty of Humanities
curtin.contributor.orcidGibbons, Leisa [0000-0001-6628-6732]
curtin.contributor.researcheridGibbons, Leisa [H-6619-2018]
dcterms.source.conference-end-date30 Nov 2018
curtin.contributor.scopusauthoridGibbons, Leisa [57192852005]


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