Digital Memory, Evidence, and Social Media. Lessons Learned from Syria

• Published in: Sociologica (Bologna) Vol. 16; no. 2; pp. 253 - 259
• Main Author: Kayyali, Dia
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bologna Societa Editrice il Mulino 01.01.2022; University of Bologna
• Subjects: Advocacy; Archives & records; archiving; Capacity building approach; conflict; digital memory; Human rights; Human rights violations; Mass media; Memory; Policy making; Social media; Social networks; syria; Syria

The Syrian Archive was founded in 2014, in the wake of the Arab Spring. It became clear that content posted to social media platforms was both digital memory and potential evidence of human rights abuses. Syrian Archive created tools and processes to archive that content, which proved useful in myri...