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The order of presentations within the panels is preliminary. Please note that there may still be changes due to Covid 19.

Friday, 11. November 2022

09:00 – 09:30 Welcome and Introduction

09:30 – 11:00 Panel 1: Collecting, Archiving, Access

Beatrice Cannelli (United Kingdom)
Social Media Archives: identifying opportunities and limitations to historical research using social media corpora

Elias Stouraitis (Greece)
Archiving and preserving the present of the past: the example of the Greece’s bicentennial observatory

Jens Crueger (Germany)
What we can learn about “social media” from Web 1.0

11:00 – 11:15 Coffee Break

11:15 – 12:45 Panel 2: Community, Identity, History

Tom Divon, Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann (Israel)
#HistoryTok: Engaging With Marginalised Histories on TikTok

Erika De Vivo (United Kingdom)
„Márkomeannu festivála is on Snapchat!" Sami Social media as virtual sites of linguistic activism and transnational community-making in Sápmi

Nadir A. Nasidi (Nigeria)
Facebook and the Reconstruction of Northern Nigerian History

12:45 – 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 – 15:30 Panel 3: Producers, Users, Reception

Christian Mathis (Switzerland), Elias Stouraitis (Greece)
Digital (hi)story telling with social media. A project about participatory history culture

Charlotte Husemann (Germany)
Is the essential invisible to the eyes? – Proposal for a triangulation study to investigate historical competencies in social media

Hannah Müssemann (Germany)
Big Data and interdisciplinarity – somewhere between dream and nightmare. Using Youtube and Twitter as resources to analyze the impact of telenovelas and TV-series

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 – 17:00 Joint Discussion and Recap

Saturday, 12. November 2022

09:30 – 12:00 Panel 4: (Big) Data, Multimodality, Methods

Including Coffee Break

Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (Netherlands)
History in latent Space. Machine learning and the multimodal analysis of historical representation on social media

Mykola Makhortykh, Aleksandra Urman, Maryna Sydorova (Switzerland)
Remembering to forget: Longitudinal analysis of Holocaust-related content on Twitter

Alisa Maksimova (Germany), Olga Logunova (Russia)
Mentions of 20th century historical figures in Russian social media posts

Vanessa Prattes (Germany)
"Their bluster is organised laughter"– Humorous anti-Semitism. A comparison of digital memes and caricatures from the Stürmer

12:00 – 13:00 Lunch Break

13:00 – 15:30 Panel 5: Algorithms, Bias, Distorsion

Bulkhia U. Panalondong (Philippines)
Distorting history and memory through social media: the case of the Philippines and Marcos’ historical legacy

Merle Strunk (Germany)
About making a happy history: Discussing a positive bias on the past in image-first social networks and its consequences

Anja Neubert (Germany)
Let's talk about algorithms! About a previously almost ignored variable in the discourse on historical narratives and historical agency on social media

Jayashabari Shankar (USA)
History for non historians: Analyzing the effectiveness of various Natural Language Processing Models used in social media

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 – 17:00 Joint Discussion and Recap

Registration

Registration is open until 09 November 2022. Please register via Google form: https://forms.gle/NL1CjDZrSE5cG4mPA

If you can't access Google Forms send us an email: socialmediahistory@rub.de.

Technical framework
The event will take place online via Zoom. For documentation on social media we use #SMH22.