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As more and more of life is lived online, with vast quantities of data being processed and created all the time, the question of ‘historical record’ has become ethically and practically complex. Millions of files are lost in error, and digital platforms can choose to delete vast quantities of information for commercial or practical reasons. How do we square ‘the right to be forgotten’ with our collective duty to record for posterity? Should hate content removed from social media be archived for historical record? Is our digital history safe? Join us to explore who decides what should be kept, and at whose cost?
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Editor and invited experts
Alexi Mostrous
Editor and Partner, Investigations
Carole Cadwalladr
Author, investigative journalist and features writer. Cadwalladr was a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, alongside The New York Times reporters, for her coverage of the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
Sir Richard Ovenden
Sir Richard has been Bodley’s Librarian (the senior Executive position of the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford) since 2014. Prior to that Richard held positions at Durham University Library, the House of Lords Library, the National Library of Scotland, and the University of Edinburgh. He moved to the Bodleian in 2003 as Keeper of Special Collections, becoming Deputy Librarian in 2011.
Alex Krasodomski-Jones
Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media, leading work on digital political extremism, information environments, disinformation and machine-enabled decision-making.