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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.