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University of Virginia Rolling Stone controversy web crawls

 Unprocessed Material
Identifier: ViU-2025-0066

Content Description

This addition to RG 50/1 (Materials relating to the university from multiple sources/ Materials related to events and responses to the Nov. 19, 2014 Rolling Stone article) contains web crawls from a variety of news sources, blogs, and UVA statements regarding the 2014 Rolling Stone since retracted article about an alleged rape on campus. The webcrawls document the story and the aftermath of the article. The webcrawls include major news sites like Rolling Stone, the Washington Post, the New York Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education, New York Magazine, the Observer, Huffington Post, Slate, Aljazeera, the Daily Beast, CNN, NPR among many others. Also included are local news sources, such as the Cavalier Daily, UVA's student newspaper, and Cville Magazine.

Acquisition Type

Transfer

Provenance

The crawls were initiated by library staff in 2015-2017.

Language of Description

English

Script of Description

Latin

Restrictions Apply

Yes

Access Restrictions

Appointments must be made to request digital files. Please use our online born digital request form (https://library.virginia.edu/special-collections/born-digital) to request access to these materials or for further information.

Dates

  • Creation: 2014 - 2016

Full Extent

9.8773 Gigabytes (954 websites and webpages)

Language of Materials

English

Metadata Rights Declarations

Inventory

954 websites and webpages