Ephemeral, lost, forgotten

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[ Session Name ] Ephemeral, lost, forgotten [ Primary Space ] Decentralisation [ Secondary Space ] Openness

[ Submitter's Name ] Anna e só [ Submitter's Affiliated Organisation ] Wikimedia and Mastodon community, MediaLab/UFG [ Submitter's GitHub ] @contraexemplo

What will happen in your session?

With the growing popularity of social media, there's a tendency of prioritizing the speed a message will be delivered rather than its longevity. Knowledge produced by collaborative efforts using services like Facebook and Twitter becomes more unretrievable given their closed and ephemeral nature. How can we fight back? Which tools can we use to preserve that knowledge? Are they enough? Let's find out!

What is the goal or outcome of your session?

• Promote a more conscious use of social media, having in mind aspects like longevity, retrievability and accessibility
• Encourage remixing of content, thinking about its license and format
• Present free and open tools one can use to foster collaborative initiatives and decentralize content, and how to contribute and make part of those projects.

If your session requires additional materials or electronic equipment, please outline your needs.

• A projector, to provide better and clear instructions when exploring free and open tools using my laptop and hightlight important concepts.

Time needed

90 mins

[KadeMorton]

@contraexemplo thanks for submitting! Totally optional, if you want you can see if you want to work the theme of the decentralisation space into your presentation https://github.com/KadeMorton/Xenshana

[contraexemplo]

@KadeMorton Oh, that's amazing! I'll definitely think of a way to embrace it.

[contraexemplo]

Title

I'd like to make a small change. New title: Ephemeral, lost, forgotten: how to help to preserve human history in an ever-changing world

Description

If historians from the future had to study our current way of life, how easy would it be to retrieve records about our present — especially digital content?

With the growing popularity of social media, there's a tendency of prioritizing the speed a message will be delivered rather than its longevity, and knowledge produced by collaborative efforts using services like Facebook and Twitter becomes progressively unretrievable given their closed and ephemeral nature.

This session invites you to reflect on our own ephemerality and our role in the preservation of human culture. We'll learn about tools and collaborative projects focused on taking care of our digital history, and discuss the strengths and weaknesses of decentralised structures regarding their longevity, accessibility and easiness to use.