Social Media

Endangered

Born Digital Photographs and Video shared via Social Media or Uploaded to Cloud Services

Digital images or video with no analogue equivalent and where the only copy is online with a social media platform. This entry includes images or videos created and shared as part of personal digital archiving, but also for businesses and others publishing data only via these services. Users of these services will likely lose their data if social media companies fold or make extracting or downloading data difficult.

Critically Endangered

Consumer Social Media Free at the Point of Use

Social media platforms free at the point of use with a business model based on reselling user data for consumer behavior and/or advertising analysis, mainly for profit-driven corporations. This entry broadly includes digital content created, shared and hosted on social media platforms as well as current interfaces of social media platforms.

Critically Endangered

Data Posted to Defunct or Little-used Social Media Platforms

Older or less widely used social media platforms to which content has been uploaded but for which no guarantees have been made about the long term.

Endangered

Interpretive Materials

Text, graphics, videos, and other content that is used in gallery and exhibition spaces to guide audiences and provide learning experiences.

Practically Extinct

Legacy Interfaces and Services Offered Online by Major Companies

Online services with unique interfaces that change regularly and through those changes provide a different experience and different content to their users.

Endangered

Recordings of Video Gameplay Uploaded to Online Platforms

Recordings of game playing and e-sports that show how games are experienced and played, especially multi-user online games and tournaments.