{"id":4123,"date":"2011-09-13T13:27:51","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T18:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/locl\/?p=4123"},"modified":"2026-01-12T15:37:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:37:42","slug":"tech-trends-w-tara-remembering-911","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/2011\/09\/13\/tech-trends-w-tara-remembering-911\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech Trends w\/ Tara: Remembering 9\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past Sunday marked the 10th anniversary of the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks which claimed over 2700 lives.\u00a0 The events of 9\/11 and the subsequent days are said to have changed the world. \u00a0Yet, the world has also changed for other reasons over the past decade, the least not being due to technological advances.<\/p>\n<p>We all have our where-I-was stories.\u00a0 Maybe you were just heading into work.\u00a0 Maybe you were sitting in your elementary classroom.\u00a0 But few of us were on our mobile phones.\u00a0 None of us where &#8216;in the cloud&#8217; or playing Angry Birds. \u00a0Not only does nearly every American adult now own a cell phone (83%), 1\/3 own a smart phone. (<a href=\"http:\/\/pewinternet.org\/Reports\/2011\/Cell-Phones.aspx\">Pew Research Center<\/a>)\u00a0 In 2001 Twitter wasn&#8217;t tweeting, Facebook wasn&#8217;t even a gleam in Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s eye and it would be another 4 years until YouTube started turning out viral sensations.\u00a0 Imagine if they had existed.\u00a0 We would have had up to the minute updates from people at Ground Zero.\u00a0 We would have seen Flickr pictures with geo tags.\u00a0 Warning tweets.\u00a0 Consolation tweets.\u00a0 People spreading the word over Google Talk.\u00a0 Facebook statuses letting everyone know they were safe.\u00a0 From Americans.\u00a0 From the World.\u00a0 We would have been glued to our computers as much as we were all glued to our televisions that day.<\/p>\n<p>While the abundance of social media we now experience helps spread current news quickly, each year on September 11th people around the world use social media to remember, honor, mourn and discuss the future.\u00a0 Search the hashtags <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/search\/%23sept11\">#sept11<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/search\/%23wherewereyou\">#wherewereyou<\/a> in <strong>Twitter<\/strong> for news reports and personal stories.\u00a0 A search for 9\/11 in <strong>Flickr<\/strong> will bring up both inspiring and touching pictures of remembrance.\u00a0 I found myself scrolling\u00a0 through 9\/11 post after post on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tumblr.com\/tagged\/september+11\">Tumblr<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The web is awash with memorials, archives, blog posts, news articles, videos, and nearly every other kind of creative output available.\u00a0 While the internet can seem ephemeral, these online tributes can be archived and kept for future generations as documents about the events, our continued reaction to them and how the world has changed.\u00a0 Look below for a few examples of archives created by organizations and libraries to preserve valuable information on the event that changed the world.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Along with the social media sites mentioned above, the following are great online resources and digital archives for further information about 9\/11.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/libguides.luc.edu\/xSept112001\">Loyola Libraries September 11th Attacks Subject Guide<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"www.archive.org\/details\/911\">9\/11 Television News Archive<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/september11\">The New York Times Reflections on 9\/11: 10 years later<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/wiseguide\/sept03\/911.html\">Library of Congress&#8217; Remembering 9\/11 Guide<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past Sunday marked the 10th anniversary of the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks which claimed over 2700 lives.\u00a0 The events of 9\/11 and the subsequent days are said to have changed the world. \u00a0Yet, the world has also changed for other reasons over the past decade, the least not being due to technological advances. 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