#BLKTwitterstorians January 2018 Chat

The first #BLKTwitterstorians chat of 2018.Because of restrictions in the Twitter terms of service, only tweet ids can be shared at scale for research. You can download and use the DocNow Hydrator to recreate the original tweets from the ids https://github.com/DocNow/hydratorThe tweet ids were collected using the Documenting the Now prototype tweet collecting tool: http://app.docnow.io/ This dataset contains a text file of the tweet ids

#MarchForBlackWomen

This dataset contains 18, 646 tweet ids documenting the March for Black Women which was held on September 30th, 2017 in Washington D.C. The dataset contains 2,925 tweet ids for tweets that included the hashtag #marchforblackwomen and 15,271 tweet ids for tweets that included the hashtag #M4BW. The march website is here: https://www.mamablack.org/march-for-black-womenUsers can convert the tweet ids back into the original tweets by using the DocNow Hydrator. You can download the Hydrator application here: https://github.com/DocNow/hydratorThis dataset of tweet ids was collected on October 3rd, 2017 using the DocNow prototype twitter collecting tool http://app.docnow.io

#BlackWomenAtWork

The hashtag #BlackWomenAtWork began trending following Fox News host Bill O'Reilly's sexist and racist comment about California Congresswoman's Maxine Water's hair on March 28th, 2017and White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer's remarks to journalist April Ryan during press briefing on the same day. The hashtag began trending after Brittany Packnett used it in this set of tweets where she asked black women to tweet about their experiences: https://twitter.com/mspackyetti/status/846811002670854145To recreate the original tweets from these tweet ids, download the DocNow Hydrator application found here https://github.com/DocNow/hydrator and run the ids through it.These tweet ids were collected on four separate occasions using the DocNow prototype twitter collection tool. You can find it here at http://app.docnow.io/bwaw1 (10,000 tweets), bwaw2 (41,256 tweets), bwaw3 (92,756 tweets) were collected on March 28th, the day the hashtag began trending. bwaw4 (140,000 tweets) was collected on March 29th

Keynote Speaker: Bergis Jules

Bergis Jules will be the keynote speaker on Thursday, March 15th. Jules is the University Archivist at the University of California, Riverside, where he is also the Project Director for Inland Empire Memories, a consortium of local cultural heritage organizations. He is the Community Lead on the Documenting the Now project, which seeks to develop tools and practices that support the ethical collection, use, and access to web and social media archival content. Documenting the Now is a project that was inspired by the protests and activism in Ferguson, MO sparked by the killing of Michael Brown in August 2014. Jules helps to lead two IMLS supported national forum projects, “Diversifying the Digital Historical Record” which concluded in October, 2017 and the upcoming “National Forum on Ethics and Archiving the Web” in March, 2018. Jules‘ work is primarily related to supporting and promoting community based archives as legitimate sites for historical collections and preservation, and the radical inclusion of people of color and other marginalized groups in our shared digital cultural heritage. His previous community archives work includes leading projects at the Black Metropolis Research Consortium at the University of Chicago and developing the D.C. Africana Archives Project at George Washington University. He is currently a doctoral student in the Public History program at the University of California, Riverside where his research is focused on representations of African Americans in archives of the web. He received an M.A. in Library and Information Science and an M.A. in African American and African Diaspora Studies from Indiana University. See 2018 Keynotes page for full video

Riverside Plane Crash

On Monday, February 27th, 2017, a small plane crashed into several residential homes in Riverside, CA killing three people and injuring several others. This is a set of tweets collected on Wednesday, March 1st, 2017 using the keywords "Riverside Plane Crash".This is a set of tweet ids only. In order to re-create the original tweets please download the DocNow Hydrator application and run the tweet ids through it. https://github.com/DocNow/hydratorThe dataset was collected using the DocNow prototype social media collection tool. http://app.docnow.io

#Charlottesville

On Friday, August 11th, 2017 a large groups of racist white nationalists carrying torches marched on the University of Virginia campus in Charlottesville, VA as an intimidation tactic against proponents for the removal of confederate statues of Robert E. Lee. The Friday evening march was held ahead of a much larger racist white nationalist rally in the center of Charlottesville planned for Saturday, August 12th, 2017. This dataset includes 100,000 tweet ids collected using the DocNow tweet collection prototype: http://app.docnow.io/ The tweet ids can be converted back into the original tweets using the DocNow Hydrator tool which can be downloaded from here: https://github.com/DocNow/hydrato

#DrawingWhileBlack

The hashtag #DrawingWhileBlack was started by artist, Annabelle, on September 15th, 2017 to celebrate the work of Black artists. The dataset includes 69,236 tweet ids collected 09/17/2017. Annabelle's website: http://sparklyfawn.tumblr.com/aboutme and Twitter profile: https://twitter.com/sparklyfawnIn order to recreate the original tweets from the ids, the user will have to upload the ids into the DocNow Hydrator application. The Hydrator can be downloaded here: https://github.com/docnow/hydrator#readmeThe tweet ids were collected using the Documenting the Now prototype twitter collecting tool: http://app.docnow.io

BestofThrowBackBlackTwitter

A collection of 402,650 tweet ids depicting memes from Black Twitter.The ids were collected from July 12th, 2019 to July 14th, 2019. You can use the DocNow Hydrator to recreate the original tweets from the ids.These ids were collected from the Twitter streaming API using the Documenting the Now demo Twitter data collection tool

Aretha Franklin

On August 16, 2018 Aretha Franklin died in Detroit, Michigan at the age of 76. Franklin, also known as the Queen of Soul, had an award winning career as a singer, songwriter, actress and pianist while also being described as the voice of the civil rights movement. This item contains two tweet id datasets. The first was collected from the search API during the response to the announcement of her death, which includes tweets from August 8 - August 19 using the query "Aretha Franklin" OR "Queen of Soul". The second dataset was collected over August 24 to September 3, which includes the date of her funeral on August 31. This second dataset was collected from the search API using the query "Aretha Franklin" OR "Queen of Soul" OR ArethaHomegoing OR ArethaFranklinFuneral OR ArethaFranklin which includes hashtags that were trending at the time. The datasets contain 2,832,128 and 1,332,442 tweet identifiers respectively.Use the DocNow Hydrator App to recreate the original tweets from the tweet ids: https://github.com/DocNow/hydratorThe ids were collected from the Twitter Search AP

Surviving R Kelly

This tweet identifier dataset was collected from the Twitter streaming and search APIs to collect tweets containing the phrase "R Kelly" or the hashtag "#SurvivingRKelly" between December 25, 2018 and January 4, 2019. This partially covers the time period in which the 6 part Lifetime documentary Surviving R Kelly was released (January 3 to January 5). It includes 1,431,655. The documentary had an estimated 1.9 million viewers.The tweet ids can be recreated (rehydrated) back into tweet by using the DocNow Hydrator App https://github.com/DocNow/hydratorThis tweet identifier dataset was collected from the Twitter streaming and search APIs