Archiving a Revolution: Smartphones, Social Media, & Protest

Tags: problems and methods

Articles

• https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/internet-interrupted-how-middle-east-countries-use-network-restrictions-clamp-down-dissent
  • many countries have similar network restrictions
  • https://netblocks.org/reports/social-media-blocked-in-turkey-as-idlib-military-crisis-escalates-r8VWGXA5
  • signal’s DNS bypass -> open sooq
  • turkey’s blocking of wikipedia earlier in the year
  • sudanese resistance by organizing early

Thoughts

• How are the current modes of archiving relating to photos captured by the protestors?
  • playing baby shark in iraq, lebanon music festival,
• Privilaging of social media because that is what is accessible
• Does having images of Tahrir next to images of cats devalue Tahrir?
• how does imagery on this serve specific uses? Does this mean anything in terms of the archival form of data and mapping the French attempted to perform?