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[RICKBARRY at aol.com]

Dear Catherine:
 
In a message dated 4/27/2009 4:45:04 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
catherine.hobbs at lac-bac.gc.ca writes:

Are there any archivists among us who are looking toward social  media 
sites and even periferal devices such as cell phones which take  photos?  It 
would help us to know what archivists are thinking of when  they look for 
creator's digital belongings.   

Catherine
I don't know of anyone who is working directly on this kind of thing,  but 
social media is and will be an issue with which leaders in the field of  
societal documentation strategies are confronted. Helen Samuels comes to mind. 
Terry Cook is currently finishing  up a feschrift book in Helen's honor (I 
have a chapter) that I guess  should be out (SAA) later this year. Though, to 
my knowledge, her writings  predate social networking, her 
conceptualization of the whole subj, of  documenting society -- esp in the first chapter of 
Varsity Letters: Documenting  Modern Colleges and Universities (Metuchen 
N.J.: Society of American Archivists and Scarecrow Press, 1992) -- would not 
exclude such  media, given her top-down functional analysis approach to 
gazillions of records. 
 
Regards, 
 
Rick
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