Religion, social media and the web archive: Peter Webster at International Conference on Web and Social Media, Oxford 2015
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Slides for a keynote speech at a workshop on religion and social media at ICSWM in Oxford, 26 May. I argued that the study of the live web has been too far separate from the study of the archived web, and there is much to gain from reuniting them. I also presented preliminary findings from two case studies into the rates of social media adoption by Christian organisations in the UK. More details and resources at https://sites.google.com/site/religiononsocialmedia/
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- 1. RELIGION, SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE WEB ARCHIVE Peter Webster Webster Research and Consulting @pj_webster / @WebsterRandC websterresearchconsulting.com
- 2. Internet/Web Archive Studies Internet Studies Web Archive Studies Present-focussed Past-focussed Data to order Dealing with traces Data as data Data as artefact Social-scientific ? Humanistic?
- 6. Archiving: a common issue Web 1.0 Social networks Technical Databases, Javascript, streaming media … + password protection, social relationships Legal Copyright, defamation, data protection … + international context with unclear ownership Access Often permission based At discretion of provider Organisational Many national web archives Not (yet) any open archives of social network content
- 7. Rates of decay of shared content Using event-centric social media data 2009-12: • after 12 months: 11% lost, 20% archived • after 30 months: 27% lost, 41% archived • or, loss of c 0.02% per day after 12 months [Aldeen & Nelson (2012), http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.3026 ]
- 8. The web its own archive? Open UK Web Archive 2004-13 comparison. @anjacks0n http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/webarchive/2014/10/what-is-still-on- the-web-after-10-years-of-archiving-.html
- 9. Common requirements • national/international archiving frameworks • better partnerships between scholars & archivists • integration of archive provision for both dataset and artefact
- 10. But also... To reintegrate study of social networks with that of the web, to understand: • shared content outside social networks • representation of social networks elsewhere • link structures between them
- 11. Religious organisations & social media: issues • 'official' participation in social networks • rates of adoption • denominational patterns of adoption • patterns of integration in traditional web estate
- 12. JISC UK Web Domain Dataset (1996-2013) • copy of Internet Archive holdings for .uk • bought by JISC, held by British Library • 60TB of data • no direct access to content • prototype search at webarchive.org.uk/shine • derived datasets in public domain (including UK Host Link Graph) at data.webarchive.org.uk
- 13. Two pilot enquiries, using UK Host Link Graph (1996-2010) Extracted subset of data: inbound links to a list of social media domains (including major blog platforms.), eg. 2008 | newsimg.bbc.co.uk | youtube.com | 45 2008 | archbishopofyork.org.uk | flickr.com | 1 2002 | secularism.org.uk | geocities.com | 1
- 14. Pilot Study 1. Rates of adoption: evangelical churches • Sample of 350 congregations linking to Evangelical Alliance • Hypothesis: that evangelicals quick to embrace new means of evangelism
- 15. Rates of adoption: evangelical churches • 48% engaged with at least one social media channel • Many blogs: bishopmike.wordpress.com asbojesus.wordpress.com ywamcarlisledtsasia2007-08.blogspot.co.uk • 6% engage with Twitter, 13% with FB
- 16. Pilot Study 2: Rates of adoption: creationism in UK Creationism: • anti-evolutionary account of human origins • modern • a minority feature of evangelicalism • 2006: campaign around school science
- 17. Creationism in UK Host Link Graph Based on analysis of in-bound links to a sample of hosts: • noted by other creationists, secularist campaigners • Mostly ignored by mainstream media and the academy • … and by the bulk of evangelical churches [ http://peterwebster.me/2014/11/18/reading-creationism-in-the-web-archive/ ]
- 18. A creationist visitor attraction
- 19. Creationist organisations & social media: first recorded links One unusual early adopter, Noah's Ark Zoo Farm 2006: flickr.com 2009: twitter.com (@Noahs_Ark_Zoo) 2010: facebook.com ( https://www.facebook.com/noahsarkzoo )
- 20. But most creationist sites much less engaged Links to: Many bloggers (again) YouTube (a few) 2008: biblicalcreation.org.uk, amen.org.uk 2009: biblicalcreationministries.org.uk, truthinscience.org.uk Twitter/FB none (except Noah's Ark Zoo)
- 21. Next steps • larger samples, both of social media channels and creationist/evangelical hosts • qualitative study of what the recorded links represent in individual pages • benchmarking rates of adoption against other content types (eg. Roman Catholics, or secularist/humanist sites)
- 22. QUESTIONS ? Peter Webster peter@websterresearchconsulting.com @pj_webster / @WebsterRandC peterwebster.me websterresearchconsulting.com