Join Don’t Shoot PDX and a team of experts from DocNow for a FREE hands-on, interactive workshop to learn the best ways to archive digital content from ongoing activist movements.
The Documenting the Now Project has selected Don’t Shoot PDX, a social justice activist organization, to host a community-based digital archives workshop. The workshop will focus on helping activists to develop the skills and to use available tools to collect, preserve, and share their web, social media and other types of digital content in their own digital archive. Our hope is that activist communities, in creating their own archives, will be able to better document their activities, assert a greater level of control over their own narratives, and secure access to digital content that has been safely captured and preserved through methods that will allow that content to be authenticated at a later date for evidentiary, research, or other purposes. As part of the workshop, the trainers will also share knowledge about digital security and surveillance, as these are issues that negatively impact modern day social justice activism. During the workshops, participants will:
*Build a community-based digital archive for their organization.
*Gain a better understanding about data collection, digital security, and surveillance issues around web and social media content.
*Gain new knowledge about digital content generated on mobile devices and develop skills to safely archive that content.
*Build relationships with local archivists and other historical documenters in your city.
*Engage in conversations leading to deeper understanding about how digital content generated in online spaces affects our personal, social, and professional lives.
If you have digital images, videos or live-streams from the Ferguson Uprising, 15 NOW, the Black Lives Matter movement and many more this workshop is for you. Let’s protect and preserve our content for generations to come.
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