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A Death in the Timeline
2018
Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies
This paper explores a Life Event post from Facebook as a point of departure for critical data studies to understand how social media metadata shapes digital cultural memory and the disciplining of data subjects. I discuss some possible interventions that can contribute to our understanding of metadata's role in the critical study of data, and in particular, how user generated metadata created in social platforms authored by state actors features in to new forms of information control, civic
doi:10.24242/jclis.v2i2.66
fatcat:3uytpoxrp5hipo7ts3l6sny2su