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* adding in cohort project summaries link and scholarly outputs and achievements for each group

* addressed small changes from Website Updates #243 ticket

* summaries pdf added

* updated project summary report PDF

* adding content and cleanup on publications page

* updates to get involved to share continuing accessible resources

* update to get involved page to reflect project closing

* minor changes noted by Ian
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| Archives Unleashed Service | Information Required | Required | Collected by AU | Explanation |
|----------------------------|--------------------------------|----------|-----------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| [Archives Unleashed Cloud](https://cloud.archivesunleashed.org/) | GitHub/Twitter Credentials | Yes | Yes | Your Github/Twitter username and password are used to authenticate. We do not have access to any information, except your username. |
| Archives Unleashed Cloud | GitHub/Twitter Credentials | Yes | Yes | Your Github/Twitter username and password are used to authenticate. We do not have access to any information, except your username. As of 30 June 2021, the Cloud is no longer available.|
| | Email | Yes | Yes | We need a point of contact to connect with you. |
| | Name | Yes | Yes | We like to know who our users are. |
| | Institution | Yes | Yes | We like to know a bit about our users: where they're from, what sort of user they are, so we can best focus and refine our services. |
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| Archives Unleashed Service | Usage Data Collected |
|----------------------------|----------------------|
| [Archives Unleashed Cloud](https://cloud.archivesunleashed.org/) | Apache Spark logs showing timestamps to produce derivative files; name and size of your Archive-It collections; username and institution. |
this | [Archives Unleashed Toolkit](https://archivesunleashed.org/) | Not Applicable; application is run locally |
| Archives Unleashed Cloud | Apache Spark logs showing timestamps to produce derivative files; name and size of your Archive-It collections; username and institution. As of 30 June 2021, the Cloud is no longer available. |
| [Archives Unleashed Toolkit](https://archivesunleashed.org/) | Not Applicable; application is run locally |
| [Newsletter](https://archivesunleashed.org/get-involved/#newsletter-subscription) | General stats that help us understand how people are interacting with our newsletters: number of subscribers, number of opt-outs, audience growth, Open/click rates, campaign performance, email clients used, locations (general, not specific). |
| [Slack](http://slack.archivesunleashed.org/) | Statistical reports are provided to Slack administrators to understand our total number of users, and when users become inactive. |
| [GitHub](https://github.com/archivesunleashed/) | Our public repositories provide insights into the repositories maintained by the Archives Unleashed Project to understand the work being done and who our contributors are. |
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Expand Up @@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ The Archives Unleashed project is pleased to announce the launch of the **Cohort

Highlights from the cohort projects are featured in our Medium blog: [**Research Applications with Web Archives: Collaboration Among Archives Unleashed Cohorts**](https://news.archivesunleashed.org/research-applications-with-web-archives-collaboration-among-archives-unleashed-cohorts-7c533cdff5d9)

**[The Archives Unleashed Cohort Project Summaries Report](/images/AUCohortProjects.pdf)**, provides a final overview of research projects, including the web archive collections analyzed, a description of tools and methods, research insights, scholarship outputs, and a short reflection on the team's research process.

## The Cohorts

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Investigating transnational events through web archive collections, the AWAC2 team will focus on a distant reading of the IIPC COVID-19 web archival collection to understand actors, content types and interconnectivity throughout it.

**Scholarly Outputs + Achievements**

* The AWAC2 team has presented results at 10+ seminars, international conferences, and meetings, including the WARCnet final conference, IIPC (2022 & 2023), and RESAW
* "[Studying Women and the COVID-19 Crisis through the IIPC Coronavirus Collection](https://netpreserveblog.wordpress.com/2022/12/20/studying-women-and-the-covid-19-crisis-through-the-iipc-coronavirus-collection/)" IIPC, Netpreserve Blog
* "[Analysing Web Archives of the Covid-19 Crisis through the IIPC collaborative collection: early findings and further research question](https://netpreserveblog.wordpress.com/2021/11/02/analysing-web-archives-of-the-covid-19-crisis-through-the-iipc-collaborative-collection-early-findings-and-further-research-questions/)" IIPC, Netpreserve Blog
* Two published articles use the AWAC2 project as a case study within a broader approach to web archives' challenges
* 1 article under review
* Drafting chapter for publication in 2023 related to work on Women, Gender and COVID-19


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**Everything Old is New Again: A Comparative Analysis of Feminist Media Tactics between the 2nd- to 4th Waves**
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Project members will explore web archive collections to conduct a comparative analysis of the history of feminist media practices across interdisciplinary multi-media sources. The team expects to produce a timeline of issue responses from different historical moments and map different feminist media practices over this timeline to determine overlaps. The project's key outcome will be to recover earlier feminist media practices and contextualize them in the digital present.

**Scholarly Outputs + Achievements**

* “Approaches to Archiving Feminist Memes." Preserving Digital Born Media by Women: methods for decolonial & feminist futures (Panel). Film and Media Studies Association of Canada annual conference, May 2023
* “Activists Archiving the Internet: Social Justice Informed Approaches to Digitally Born Content.” Panel with Nick Ruest, Brianna Wiens, Shawn Walker, Mina Momeni. Shaking Up the Archive, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, June 23-25, 2023. Accepted February 2023.
* “Reconceptualizing Internet Archives: Feminist Memes as Repertoire” Canadian Association for Theatre Research, Halifax, June 9-12, 2023. Accepted February 2023.
* “From Placards to Memes: The Utopic Refusals of Feminist Media Techno-Imaginaries,” co-author Brianna Wiens, Feminist Encounters (Invited for special issue Sept 2023)

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**Mapping and tracking the development of online commenting systems on news websites between 1996–2021**
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This project aims to reconstruct a history of online commenting by examining the role of commenting technologies in the popularisation of commenting practices. It will do so by examining the distribution and evolution of commenting technologies on the top 25 Dutch, German, and world news websites from 1996–2021, to understand how they have shaped the practices of users. This will allow them to explore the interplay between technologies and practices of the past and to investigate histories of natively-born technologies and practices.

**Scholarly Outputs + Achievements**

* Two presentations at the Association of Internet Researchers Conference, 2022, Dublin, Ireland [Slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1dTkFqoiOufkKqbOZx9d6N5IA4x4cSklCQpuCU2OyKt4/edit?usp=sharing).
* WARCnet closing event, 2022, in Aarhus, Denmark [Slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1v7ibnVmeYTx5b0my6FZ-72KaIr95xStUKSP3Wc-TFtw/edit?usp=sharing).
* Internet Archive, 2021, online event [Slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1e4ehMSt3Tpv3i8phx3PFheEZ92kcR3Y5Kdf4X695b6M/edit?usp=sharing).
* Internet Archive, 2022, Canada.
* Workshops on ‘online technography’ using web archives at the University of Siegen.
* Development of Jupyter Notebooks for internal use.
* Development of ‘the Technograph’ tool (in-progress), a visualization interface on the dataset to assist in the analysis


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**Crisis Communication in the Niagara Region during the COVID-19 Pandemic**
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Using web archives collected by Brock University, this project will examine how organizations in the Niagara region have responded to government COVID-19 mandates. Analysis will focus on investigating three types of entities: local government, non-profit organizations, and major private entities. Findings from this research aim to inform future crisis communication organizational planning, specifically at the local and municipal level. The project will also create several open computational notebooks to support teaching, learning, and research.

Visit their project site: https://brockdsl.github.io/archives_unleashed/
**Scholarly Outputs + Achievements**

* Visit their project site and blog: https://brockdsl.github.io/archives_unleashed/
* Paper under review with the Canadian Journal of Communication.
* Paper presented at International Association for Media and Communication Research 2023 conference.
* Press Coverage: “[Brock examining Niagara’s crisis communications during COVID-19](https://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/news/niagara-region/2021/11/12/brock-examining-niagaras-covid-19-crisis-communicated.html)”, St. Catharines Standard

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* Kristy Roschke, Arizona State University
* Anna Muldoon, Arizona State University

This project will examine and compare two case studies of health misinformation: HIV mis/disinformation circulating on Geocities in the mid-1990s to early 2000s with the role of official COVID-19 Dashboards in COVID mis/disinformation. This work contributes to our understanding of current and historical health misinformation as well as the connections between them, and will also garner insights into how historical narratives of health misinformation have been recycled and repurposed.
This project will examine and compare two case studies of health misinformation: HIV mis/disinformation circulating on Geocities in the mid-1990s to early 2000s with the role of official COVID-19 Dashboards in COVID mis/disinformation. This work contributes to our understanding of current and historical health misinformation as well as the connections between them, and will also garner insights into how historical narratives of health misinformation have been recycled and repurposed.

**Scholarly Outputs + Achievements**

* Viral health misinformation: From GeoCities to COVID-19, presented at the Association of Internet Researchers, Dublin
* Paper under review
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An introduction to the 2022-2023 cohort projects is featured in this blog post: [**Web Archives Research: Return of the Cohorts**](https://news.archivesunleashed.org/web-archives-research-return-of-the-cohorts-94ed1cd21a90).

**[The Archives Unleashed Cohort Project Summaries Report](/images/AUCohortProjects.pdf)**, provides a final overview of research projects, including the web archive collections analyzed, a description of tools and methods, research insights, scholarship outputs, and a short reflection on the team's research process.

## The Cohorts

**Latin American Women's Rights Movements: Tracing Online Presence through Language, Time and Space**
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In analyzing web archives related to human rights and feminist movements, the project will develop a historical analysis of the websites from women’s rights movements in Mexico and Latin America, particularly those focusing on eradicating femicides and gender violence. The team will also study how these movements relate to women’s rights movements globally, specifically by comparing language expression.

**Scholarly Outputs + Achievements**

* Built Web Archive Collection, as part of Huellas Incómodas Project: https://idrhku.org/huellasincomodas/webarchive
* Spanish Wikipedia entry for web archiving https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archivado_web
* DH Workshop hosted at the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico, 2023, organized with a grant from the Science Council of the State of Mexico https://idrhku.org/huellasincomodas/investigaciondigital
* Two conference presentations
* (Forthcoming Article) Rosario Rogel-Salazar, Abraham García, Alan Colin-Arce, Verónica Benítez-Pérez. Preserving the memory of Latin American feminist movements on digital and web counterarchives
* Received additional $100,000 MXN grant from the Science Council of the State of Mexico under the program Research Funding for Women Scientists.

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**Historicizing Aughts-Era Mormon Mommy Blogging Media Landscapes**
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This project will identify connections and transitions to new media ecologies and new iterations of racialized, gendered domestic ideologies that share historic genealogies to digital media practices and structures pioneered by Mormon mommy bloggers.

**Scholarly Outputs + Achievements**

* Abstract accepted, "Digital Pioneers: Mormon Mommy Bloggers and Digital Domestics,” for a special issue of Internet Histories on “Gender and the Internet/Web History” forthcoming 2025
* Zine “Sliding Data: Feminist Methodological Pathways” accepted for publication in DIY Methods Low-Carbon Research Methods Initiative forthcoming 2023
* Submission as part of a panel on “Digital scholarship and the web: Exploring new sources and emerging research methods” for the Digital Library Federation Forum Conference 2023

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**Web Archiving and the Saskatchewan COVID Archive: Expanding Coverage to Capture Social Media, Medical Misinformation, and Radicalization**
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Using web archives collected by the University of Saskatchewan, this project seeks to map and connect conversations and experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic with the province of Saskatchewan. The research team will develop timelines and knowledge trees to provide an opportunity to learn about the causal relationship between social media and this important shift in public health policy in Saskatchewan.

**Scholarly Outputs + Achievements**

* Nazeem Muhajarine et al., “Capturing and Documenting the Wider Health Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic Through the Remember Rebuild Saskatchewan Initiative: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Interdisciplinary Project,” JMIR Research Protocols 12, no. 1 (June 6, 2023): e46643, https://doi.org/10.2196/46643.
* Derek Cameron, "Archiving Twitter During the Upheaval'" ActiveHistory.ca, https://activehistory.ca/2022/11/archiving-twitter-during-the-upheaval/


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**Querying Queer Web Archives**
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In studying queer online spaces, project investigators will explore investments in concepts like utopia, play, radicalism, normativity, religion, and conversion and how they affect queer identity and discourse formation over time.

**Scholarly Outputs + Achievements**

* Yoong, D., Calado, F., & Clawson, C., (2023, May 3). Querying Queer Web Archives [Conference presentation]. IIPC WAC 2023, Hilversum, The Netherlands.

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**Using Web Archives for Mapping the Use of Cultural Practices in Postconflict Societies and During Reconciliation Processes**
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Employing computational methods such as contextual search, data mining, and web scraping amongst others, this project aims at making an initial assessment and map out the use of cultural practices in different reconciliation processes and across several human rights organizations working actively in post-conflict societies.

**Scholarly Outputs + Achievements**

* Digital publication in Cultural Ecologies of Memory (CEM) Platform:
http://www.culturalecologies.com/case/DataMining


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