Preservation Acts
Toward an ethical archive of the web

http://harpers.org/archive/2018/12/preservation-acts-archiving-twitter-social-media-movements/
Date Written:  2018-12-01
Publisher:  Harper's Magazine
Year Published:  2018
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX23982

But they began to wonder what it meant to take an ephemeral object -- destined, after days and weeks, to sink to the bottom of an ever-shifting pile -- and render it permanent. It wasn't hard to see how an archive of civil disobedience could become a tool of government surveillance.