Collection search - Official social media and online presence [multiple media (electronic)]

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Official social media and online presence [multiple media (electronic)]

Hierarchical level:

Sub-series

Date:

[2006-2015].

Reference:

R16093-61678-X-E

Type of material:

Photographs, Textual material, Moving images, Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

5637720

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Stephen J. Harper fonds

Office of the Prime Minister - Communications unit

Official social media and online presence
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Sub-series includes:

5 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

[2006-2015].

Place of creation:

Canada

Extent:

17,199 digital textual records.
16,625 digital photographs : col.
919 digital sound recordings (96 h, 7 min).
591 digital moving images (35 h, 2 min).
55 digital pictures.
24 digital objects.

Language of material:

English

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This sub-series comprises of the records documenting the online presence of Prime Minister Stephen J. Harper during his time in office (2006-2015).

This sub-series contains records related to major social media and photo and video sharing platforms used by Mr. Harper in his function as Prime Minister: Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, Podcasts, and YouTube. This online presence provided visitors or "followers" with "on-the-go" information about the Prime Minister during the course of his daily activities. These activities were generally official in nature such as meetings, foreign visits and travel, attendance of special events, special projects or initiatives, and speeches. In addition to official activities, these accounts provided the public with insight into his personal interests and family life as Prime Minister. His personal social media accounts however, were not transferred to LAC and as such are not part of this sub-series.

While the records are from the Prime Minister's official accounts, some special projects or initiatives under his leadership, such as the Economic Action Plan (EAP) and the Prime Minister's Volunteer Awards (PMVA), had a dedicated online account of its own. The Office of the Privy Council (PCO) and the Office of the Prime Minister's (PMO) staff collaborated on the content that was posted online.

The communications team producing the social media content would use popular hashtags such as #PetoftheDay, #DayInTheLife, and #24SevenDaily to provide continuous online content via the Office of the Prime Minister's website, RSS feeds, and social media platforms.

Photograph and audiovisual files used in the Prime Minister's social media feeds often originated from content generated by the Prime Minister's Official Photographers and the Communications unit within PMO. PCO communications staff also took photographs and videos for the Prime Minister's social media accounts.

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Source of title:

Title derived from contents.

Physical description note:

Digital records received in the following file format(s): MP4, M4V, MOV, DOC, DOCX XLSX, CSV, JS, PDF, HTML, CSS, RTF, TXT, JPG, GIF, PSD, and PNG (98.24 GB).

Arrangement note:

The subseries is further arranged into five sub-sub-series to reflect the various social media platforms: Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, and Podcasts.

Dates of creation note:

Archivists relied on several data sources to establish dates of creation. These include available metadata date fields, dates found within digital records titles, and dates found in contents.

Related material:

Related material is found in the "Official Photographers" series, "Transcripts of public addresses of Prime Minister Stephen J. Harper" and "Official audiovisual recordings" sub-series.

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Private
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Graphic(photo): electronic

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Electronic container [R16093] R16093-61678-X

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Textual records: electronic

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Electronic container [R16093] R16093-61678-X

[Consultation 99 Closed pending processing]

Moving images (video): electronic

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Electronic container [R16093] R16093-61678-X

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Sound recordings : electronic

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Electronic container [R16093] R16093-61678-X

[Consultation 99 Closed pending processing]

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