Connecting personal and community memory-making: Facebook Groups as emergent community archives
dc.contributor.author | Gibbons, Leisa | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-03-16T02:37:17Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-03-16T02:37:17Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Gibbons, 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.uri | http://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.language | English | |
dc.publisher | UNIV SHEFFIELD DEPT INFORMATION STUDIES | |
dc.relation.uri | http://www.informationr.net/ir/24-3/rails/rails1804.html | |
dc.subject | Science & Technology | |
dc.subject | Technology | |
dc.subject | Information Science & Library Science | |
dc.subject | CULTURE | |
dc.subject | HISTORY | |
dc.title | Connecting personal and community memory-making: Facebook Groups as emergent community archives | |
dc.type | Conference Paper | |
dcterms.source.volume | 24 | |
dcterms.source.number | 3 | |
dcterms.source.issn | 1368-1613 | |
dcterms.source.title | Information Research-An International Electronic Journal | |
dcterms.source.conference | Australasian Conference on Research Applications in Information and Library Studies (RAILS) - Engaging Research - Collaboration and Community | |
dcterms.source.conference-start-date | 28 Nov 2018 | |
dcterms.source.conferencelocation | Mohash Univ, Caulfield Campus, Fac Informat Technol, Melbourne, Australia | |
dc.date.updated | 2020-03-16T02:37:17Z | |
curtin.department | School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry | |
curtin.accessStatus | Open access via publisher | |
curtin.faculty | Faculty of Humanities | |
curtin.contributor.orcid | Gibbons, Leisa [0000-0001-6628-6732] | |
curtin.contributor.researcherid | Gibbons, Leisa [H-6619-2018] | |
dcterms.source.conference-end-date | 30 Nov 2018 | |
curtin.contributor.scopusauthorid | Gibbons, Leisa [57192852005] |
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