#MeToo signifies the global movement that emerged as a means for survivors of sexual assault to publicly speak up on the abuse they have suffered. As Amanda Strauss says in Harvard's Schlesinger Newsletter, "The digital footprint of #MeToo in the past year measures more than 19 million English-language Twitter posts and thousands of news articles and personal testimonials." Harvard's Schlesinger Library has begun a large-scale project to comprehensively document #MeToo to ensure the preservation of the vast content, including "social media, news articles, statements of denial and/or apology, web-forum conversations, websites, and related hashtags, along with more-traditional papers and records."
In my project I am hoping to detail the step-by-step of this online movement and also potentially offer insight on means of using digital platforms to create your own social or political movements.