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Heritage and Social Media

Understanding Heritage in a Participatory Culture

By: Elisa Giaccardi (Editor)

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Published: 14th June 2012
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Heritage and Social Media explores how social media reframes our understanding and experience of heritage. Through the idea of 'participatory culture' the book begins to examine how social media can be brought to bear on the encounter with heritage and on the socially produced meanings and values that individuals and communities ascribe to it.

To highlight the specific changes produced by social media, the book is structured around three major themes:

  • Social Practice. New ways of understanding and experiencing heritage are emerging as a result of novel social practices of collection, representation, and communication enabled and promoted by social media.
  • Public Formation. In the presence of widely available social technologies, peer-to-peer activities such as information and media sharing are rapidly gaining momentum, as they increasingly promote and legitimate a participatory culture in which individuals aggregate on the basis of common interests and affinities.
  • Sense of Place. As computing becomes more pervasive and digital networks extend our surroundings, social media and technologies support new ways to engage with the people, interpretations and values that pertain to a specific territorial setting.

Heritage and Social Media provides readers with a critical framework to understand how the participatory culture fostered by social media changes the way in which we experience and think of heritage. By introducing readers to how social media are theorized and used, particularly outside the institutional domain, the volume reveals through groundbreaking case studies the emerging heritage practices unique to social media. In doing so, the book unveils the new issues that are emerging from these practices and the new space for debate and critical argumentation that is required to illuminate what can be done in this burgeoning sector of heritage work.

List of figures and tablesp. vii
List of contributorsp. ix
Acknowledgmentsp. xiii
Others: a prologuep. xiv
Introduction: reframing heritage in a participatory culturep. 1
Social practicep. 11
Collective memory as affirmation: people-centered cultural heritage in a digital agep. 13
Socially distributed curation of the Bhopal disaster: a case of grassroots heritage in the crisis contextp. 30
Museum of the self and digital death: an emerging curatorial dilemma for digital heritagep. 56
Social traces: participation and the creation of shared heritagep. 69
Public formationp. 87
Remembering together: social media and the formation of the historical presentp. 89
Heritage knowledge, social media and the sustainability of the intangiblep. 107
Connecting to everyday practices: experiences from the Digital Natives exhibitionp. 126
The rise of the 'media museum': creating interactive cultural experiences through social mediap. 145
Sense of placep. 159
Mosaics and multiples: online digital photography and the framing of heritagep. 161
Mobile Ouija boardsp. 179
Extending connections between land and people digitally: designing with rural Herero communities in Namibiap. 197
Situating the sociability of interactive museum guidesp. 217
Afterword: dialogue in the space between ethnography and heritagep. 239
Indexp. 244
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ISBN: 9780415616676
ISBN-10: 0415616670
Audience: Tertiary; University or College
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 272
Published: 14th June 2012
Dimensions (cm): 23.4 x 15.6  x 1.9
Weight (kg): 0.422