2018-04-09: Trip Report for the National Forum on Ethics and Archiving the Web (EAW)
On March 23-24, 2018 I attended the National Forum on Ethics and Archiving the Web (EAW), hosted at the New Museum and organized by Rhizome and the members of the Documenting the Now project. The nor'easter " Toby " frustrated the travel plans of many, including causing my friend Martin Klein to have to cancel completely and for me to not arrive at the New Museum until after the start of the second session at 2pm on Thursday. Fortunately, all the sessions were recorded and I link to them below. Day 1 -- March 22, 2018 Session 1 ( recording ) began with a welcome, and then a keynote by Marisa Parham , entitled "The Internet of Affects: Haunting Down Data". I did have the privilege of seeing her keynote at the last DocNow meeting in December , and looking at the tweets (" #eaw18 ") she addressed some of the same themes, including the issues of the process of archiving social media (e.g., tweets) and the resulting decontextualization, in...