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Group 1: Vote for Our Lives

Collected by: University of Maryland, iSchool

Archived since: Apr, 2018

Description:

This project seeks to document the intersection of the March for Our Lives and voter registration and engagement. While we document the event itself and responses to it, we focus on the ways in which March for Our Lives organizers, speakers, and participants used the event to advocate for change through the democratic process, specifically voter registration and rallying young people to use their votes to influence lawmakers and gun policy. This work was conducted by three MLIS students (Emily Flint, Adam Gray, Andrew Staton) for a graduate class, LBSC785: Documentation, Collection, and Appraisal of Records, taught by Professor Ricardo Punzalan and Amy Wicker, at the University of Maryland, College Park, in Spring 2018.

Subject:   Politics & Elections,  Society & Culture,  Blogs & Social Media

Creator:   Emily Flint, Adam Gray, Andrew Staton

Important Information About This Collection:   No data has been archived in this collection due to the data storage limitations of the parent collection. However, collection and seed-level metadata has been preserved to represent the content of the materials, as well the process of selecting and assembling the materials which we were unable to archive. Two test crawl reports have also been preserved.

Language:   English

Appraisal and Selection Note:   To research the collection theme, we reviewed news coverage of the March for Our Lives demonstrations and web content created by event organizers, such as op-eds, speeches, web pages, and social media posts. We aimed to capture the actions of students like Emma Gonzalez and David Hogg, who were profiled in publications like Time and acted as leaders for the March for Our Lives movement. We also identified organizations like HeadCount and Rock the Vote as key players that provided support for associated voter registration activities. We included relevant web-based material that documented both preparation for the march (such as voter registration training) and the actual event itself. We also identified content that examined the March for Our Lives’s impact in terms of voter registration statistics and future policy directions. Because the march was organized by students, we made an effort to include material from sources that target a younger audience, such as BuzzFeed and Teen Vogue in addition to major stories from mainstream news sites. We captured the social media accounts of some of the key players listed above and also identified #VoteforOurLives as a relevant hashtag that highlighted connections between March for Our Lives and civic engagement.

Missing Content:   The source URLs for documents in this collection may contain content which was not captured by the web crawler. This content may include embedded videos, gifs, still images, and links to other sites.

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Title: Registering Voters at March For Our Lives

URL: https://www.facebook.com/events/406966716395476/

Description: Facebook event created by the organization HeadCount, intended to organize volunteers to register voters at the March. Wayback capture was incorrect in our first crawl, improved due to changed setting in second crawl.

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Creator:   HeadCount

Publisher:   Facebook

Date:   2018-03-24

Title: Volunteer at March for Our Lives

URL: https://www.headcount.org/marchforourlives/

Description: HeadCount, which seems to have been the primary voter registration partner for the March, had this volunteer sign-up page active before the March. This also includes a limited list of marches held other than the main one in DC.

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Creator:   HeadCount

Date:   2018-03-24

Title: March for Our Lives: Voter Registration

URL: https://www.lwvdc.org/events-main/2018/3/24/march-for-our-lives/

Description: This event page served as an information point for League of Women Voters volunteers who wished to help register voters during the March.

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Creator:   League of Women Voters

Date:   2018-03-24

Title: Thousands register to vote at March for Our Lives demonstrations

URL: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/march-our-lives-pushes-expand-voter-rolls-across-country-n859756/

Description: This NBCNews article covers voter registration results at the March for Our Lives in Washington D.C. Because this seed was not displaying correctly when we initially performed a test crawl, it was intended to be removed or modified in future crawls.

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Creator:   Phil McCausland

Publisher:   NBC News

Date:   2018-03-24

Title: March for Our Lives - Rock the Vote

URL: https://www.rockthevote.org/event/march-for-our-lives/

Description: Rock the Vote is an organization that advocates for voter registration and civic engagement. Through this event page, the organization showed their support for the march.

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Publisher:   Rock the Vote

Date:   2018-03-24

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