Browse Exhibits (34 total)
He's Just Not Ready: The Election of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
An exhbition profiling the media reaction leading up to and immediately following the election of Canada's 23rd Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau. Trudeau is a Canadian political legacy as the son of former Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau. The incumbant party, the Conservative Party of Canada, painted the Liberal Party leader as an inexperienced pretty boy. The media picked up on Trudeau's youth and looks, but also his vastly different policies.
Scandal and the Complications of Niche Reporting
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The purpose of this exhibit is to highlight the challenges of information gathering about niche events and cultures. This is being accomplished through the lense of a series of event that affected the World Wrestling Federation from 1991 to 1992.
The collection has been divided up by year, so that you can navigate the issues and see how they were portrayed through traditional print and television media, as well as through the lens of the focused wrestling journalists who covered the professional wrestling world exclusively.
Pandemic: Responses in North America, Europe, and Asia to the 2009 H1N1 Influenza Outbreak
Through the use of videos, public health organization bulletins and reports, and articles, this exhibit takes the participant from the early days of the 2009 H1N1 outbreaks in North America, Europe, and Asia, into the defining moment when the outbreaks were deemed a larger pattern signalling a pandemic, and on into the post-pandemic stage. As news reports shed light on human interest stories, and social media stoked the flames of fear and conspiracy theories in the populace, public health agencies sought to provide factual advice to which the public could refer. This exhibit is divided into several stages along the trajectory of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, with collection items representing activities occurring in response to the pandemic in North America, Europe, and Asia.
#YesAllWomen- The Power of Hashtag Activism
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The #YesAllWomen collection describes the grassroot movement that was a response to the 2014 Isla Killings in California. On May 23, 2014, Elliot Rodger killed six people and wounded thirteen others. He shot three sorority members. Before the massacre, Rodger posted online videos and manifesto that detailed his anger over women rejecting him. Women made connections between Rodger's words and incidents they have encountered in their own lives. The hashtag parodies the #notallmen meme. The premise behind #YesAllWomen is not all men engage in violent behaviors or sexist attitudes but all women fear some sort of violence or experience sexism and harassment every day. Roger’s hate grew out of attitudes around us. Women have to live with the fear of rape or the threat of violence. On twitter women report the everyday sexism they encounter and their everyday fear of violence. The hashtag quickly grew in popularity and had over a million tweets within a couple of days. It demonstrates the power of hashtag activism. Other activist hashtags did not grow as quickly. The #YesAllWomen hashtag started a powerful conservation about violence and sexism towards women. It brought important subjects that are often ignored to the mainstream media. #YesAllWomen gave women a safe space to discuss misogyny, sexism, violence and sexual violence. #YesAllWomen sought to find a solution to misogyny and the violence against women. The movement gave power back to women who have been silenced.
The exhibit describes the Isla Vista massacre and explores how the event lead to the creation of the #YesAllWomen hashtag. The #YesAllWomen tweets focus on women's stories they told through twitter. Articles by major new sites and tweets by well-known users demonstrates the popularity and the affect the hashtag had. The controversy over #YesAllWomen page shows the backlash agaisnt the movement. Finally, the page, the Legacy of #YesAllWomen, examines how the creator of the hashtag and people remembers about the movement. The #YesAllWomen exhibit documents an important movement in activism online and the feminist movement.
Saving Undershaw
This collection features artifacts detailing the fight to save Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's former home, Undershaw, with a focus on the work of the Undershaw Preservation Trust.
Conan Doyle built Undershaw to meet the health requirements of his wife, Louise, who was suffering from tuberculosis. Conan Doyle lived there from 1897-1907, and entertained a variety of famous guests, including Bram Stoker and J.M. Barrie.
After Conan Doyle sold the house, it was used as a hotel until 2004, when it was sold and began to fall into a state of disrepair. The fight to save it began in 2010, when the owners, Fosseway Limited, announced plans to turn Undershaw into a block of apartments. This decision was stopped by a High Court in 2012, which simultaneously saved Undershaw while leaving its future uncertain.
Undershaw was put up for sale again in 2013 and was purchased by the DFN Charitable Foundation, who announced plans to convert Undershaw into an extension of Stepping Stones School. A High Court ordered a review of these plans in 2015, halting the renovations and once again putting Undershaw's future into question.
Black Lives Matter: The Revolution Will Be Televised
This collection focuses on the media, sound and images captured of the ongoing #blacklivesmatter movement, including slogans used to propel and incite the spirit of activism such as twitter hash tags. It will contain brief information on the events that have had the greatest significance in the movement for context--including biographical information for indiviuals who are focal points. Ultimately, this collection seeks to provide a future generation a brief overview or chronicle of the events (much like a time capsule) for the generation of interest in seeking their own truth and interpretation of the events.
In order to keep this collection focused, the creator observed the following constraints in curating:
--Neutrality in sources collected will be observed (i.e. objects and materials collected will consist primarily of informational content that explains and analyzes rather than opinion pieces).
--Harvesting original media will be observed whenever possible. This collection contains lots of media on servers obtained from host sites such as YouTube.
Disney Confessions
A collection of anonymous confessions from Disney fans about both the potential of the newest Disney Princess and what it means to them.
The confessions show how important for fans it is for the Disney Animation Studio to portray Princess Moana acuratly and in a way that doesn't down play or "white wash" poleyniesian culture.
Archives for Black Lives
This Digital Archival Collection project focuses on a digital collection being added to frequently. It arose from the hashtag #ArchivesForBlackLives and the work of digital archivist/activist Jarett M. Drake. Mr. Drake works as a Digital Archivist for Princeton University’s Seeley G. Mudd’s Manuscript Library in New Jersey.
It focuses on a movement started by Mr. Drake advocating for the creation of more independent, community-based archives to exist separately from traditional archival repositories. In some cases, he also advocates for traditional archival repositories to connect with these independent, community-based archives.
Jarrett M. Drake Biography
Jarrett Drake grew up in Indiana, he earned his undergraduate degree in history–plus three letters as a football wide receiver from Yale University.
He has worked as the Digital Archivist for Princeton University’s Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library in New Jersey since 2013. Prior to working at Princeton, he served as a Library Associate at the Special Collection Library of University of Michigan. He also had brief stints at the Maryland State Archives and Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Aside from being a leader in the field of digital archives, Jarrett is the leading force behind the hashtag #archivesforblacklives and A People’s Archive of Police Violence in Cleveland.
On #ArchivesForBlackLives movement
Based on my experience as one of the many people responsible for creating A People’s Archive of Police Violence in Cleveland and based on my role as the Digital Archivist at the Princeton University Archives, I advocated for the creation of more independent, community-based archives to exist separately from traditional archival repositories. (Expainding #ArchivesForBlackLives to Traditional Archival Repositories, June 27, 2016)
Anonymous: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
This exhibit is a collection of images, videos, websites, articles, and commentary about the loose collective hacktivist group known as Anonymous. It documents Anonymous’ trajectory from its beginning as 4chan and its development into an organized movement committed to social justice, human agency, and privacy. While there are many different views and critiques about Anonymous’ operations and ethics, some good, and some bad, this exhibit will primarily focus on documenting the group’s transformation from trolls and hackers into an organized social protest movement and as an emerging form of virtual protest in the 21st Century.
League of Legends 2016 World Championship Group Stage
This collection consists of items from the League of Legends 2016 Worlds Group Stage. League of Legends is one of the most popular esports and its World Championship brings the 16 best teams from around the world to compete to be the best. This collection is important because esports are gaining popularity all over the world and this collection archives one aspect of the League of Legends 2016 World Championship that can be viewed in the years to come as an important stepping stone for Wild Card teams. This collection consists mostly of YouTube videos with the matches, but also includes video interviews. Other type of artifacts are Twitter posts, Instagram posts, and online articles.