# The Digital Traces of User-generated Content: How Social Media Data May Become the Historical Sources of the Future

Katrin Weller argues that big data from social media and online communication channels are valuable sources which need to be understood now in order to be preserved effectively for future historians.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2015
- By: John W. Kluge Center (library Of Congress)
- Genres: Science, History
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2021689758/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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