This study examined the influence and meaning of SNS as the hot topic of our time from the archival perspective and also studied the ‘SNS records management’. The archival value of SNS includes many users, political and economic influences, securi...
This study examined the influence and meaning of SNS as the hot topic of our time from the archival perspective and also studied the ‘SNS records management’. The archival value of SNS includes many users, political and economic influences, securing social diversity, formation of collective memory, realization of public sphere, generation of ‘Big data’, meaning of SNS itself and volatility.
The many users mean a high accessibility and utilization of SNS, which increase the influence and value of SNS as a record. Politically, SNS is a tool that strengthens the communication among the voters, politicians and the public while economically, it is a window to accept the complaints of the customers and a marketing tool. In addition, the voices of social minorities are also recorded unlike in the traditional media, which makes the SNS record a method to gain the social variety and diversity. SNS is a place of formation of collective memory and collective memory itself. Furthermore, it can play the role of public sphere. It also is a place for generation of ‘big data’ in an archival sense. The history is also the history of the media, which necessitates the record of SNS itself and the volatility of SNS also carries the meaning of SNS records.
In addition, this study has classified the SNS records management into primary and secondary management that include record management entities, subjects, periods, methods, and causes. The primary management occurs without discrimination in real-time web setting for the system by the user and the secondary management occurs through evaluations and selections of the database or offline for the tipping points by the experts or the committees in sociocultural ways. This study analyzed the history, status, and the meaning of SNS to assess the values and meanings as the preliminary study for the future SNS record management studies.