Presenting the project at #digikult
Two of our team members, Elisabeth Boogh and Kajsa Hartig, presented the project today at the Swedish digital heritage conference #digikult. Being more than two years into the project we are starting to wrap up the work with case studies and approaching the delivery...
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Losing Photos when we share
Comment on the implications of the recent closings of social media platforms and data delete In the last blogpost we reflected on the fact that social media platforms in some ways have become the new archives for (social) digital photography for numerous people and...
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Have Social Media Become the New Archives of Digital Photography?
In this blogpost the Collecting Social Photo (CoSoPho) project team will share reflections about the development of social media and the possible consequences for collecting for archives and museums. During the recent years we have noticed a growing focus on memory...
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Some Reasons Why the Collecting Social Photo Project is Building a Prototype for Collecting Social Digital Photography
A complete report on the prototype web app will be found in the anthology finalising the project, which will be published early 2020. In an upcoming blog post we will reflect on the features, which the team has decided to be the core functionality and some of the...
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Creating, Documenting and Using Archives of Spontaneous Memorials
In September the Collecting Social Photo project was presented at an international workshop in Manchester, Collecting, Documenting and Using Archives of Spontaneous Memorials. Representatives from several countries in Europe had gathered to share experiences from...
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18 month report from the Collecting Social Photo project
This is a report from the Collecting Social Photo project, a three year research project funded by Swedish Riksbankens Jubileumsfond. The project’s main goal is to develop new recommendations, for museums and archives in Denmark, Finland and Sweden, for collecting and...
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Presentation at MW18 in Vancouver
The Collecting Social Photo team presented the project at the conference Museums and the Web in Vancouver, April 20. Download presentation (Pdf) Full paper at Museums and the web 2018 website Script from presentation Never before have so many people photographed so...
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Collecting photos from a traumatic event – a year later
Photo: Marie Öquist, CC-BY. In April 2017 Stockholm was subject to a terrorist attack. A truck drove through a crowded street killing several people and leaving many more injured. The event had a major impact on the city shutting down public transport and causing...
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Are museums and archives collecting social media photography?
Image: Taking pictures of your meal is one common type of social media photography. More than 65 000 000 posts on Instagram are tagged with #lunch. Shaping new recommendations for collecting and disseminating social media photography is part of the Collecting Social...
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#MeToo in Sweden: Online activism, social protest and visual testimonies
Within a week of the start of the global #MeToo online campaign, manifestations were organized in 13 cities across Sweden on 22 October 2017, from Umeå in the north to Malmö in the south, from the capital of Stockholm to Visby on the island of Gotland. Thousands of people, mostly women, took to the streets to protest against various forms of sexual harassment and assault.
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