A TCD Medical/Health Humanities Seminar talk by Dr Lorraine Grimes (MU).
Archiving Reproductive Health: Archiving Sensitive social media Material – TCD Medical and Health Humanities, 1-2pm, Thursday 5th Dec
December seminar TCD Medical and Health Humanities, 1-2pm, this Thursday, 5th Dec: hybrid online and in-person Galbraith Room, TCD Long Room Hub: Dr Lorraine Grimes from Maynooth University will present on her research on history and reproductive health “Archiving Reproductive Health: Archiving Sensitive social media Material” a project she completed for the Digital Repository of Ireland. Please register at https://ticketpass.org/event/ECWVST/archiving-reproductive-health-archiving-sensitive-social-media-material
This talk will introduce the Archiving Reproductive Health Project and archiving sensitive social media material. We will talk about anonymization procedures, coding/cataloguing and developing a self-care protocol and an ethics protocol for the project.
Archiving Reproductive Health (ARH) is a Wellcome-funded project coordinated by the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI), working to preserve digital material created by grassroots organisations working for reproductive justice in Ireland, especially during the 2018 referendum to repeal the Eighth Amendment of the Irish constitution.
The project was the first in the world to archive Facebook social media posts. A key part of the project was the archiving of stories posted on a Facebook page called “In Her Shoes”, where people anonymously shared their experiences of being refused abortion care, having to travel or illegally order pills online, and the emotional impact of these experiences. These stories often contained details of traumatic experiences such as sexual assault, obstetric violence and domestic abuse.