Heritage and social media : understanding heritage in a participatory culture
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Heritage and social media : understanding heritage in a participatory culture
Routledge, 2012
- : pbk
Available at 4 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
Foreword Introduction: Reframing heritage in a participatory culture Part I: Social Practice 1. Collective memory as affirmation: People-centered cultural heritage in a digital age 2. Socially distributed curation of the Bhopal disaster: A case of grassroots heritage in the crisis context 3. Museum of the self and digital death: An emerging curatorial dilemma 4. Social traces: Participation and the creation of shared heritage Part II: Public Formation 5. Remembering together: Social media and the formation of the historical present 6. Heritage knowledge, social media, and the sustainability of the intangible 7. Connecting to everyday practices: Experiences from the Digital Natives exhibition 8. The rise of the media museum: Creating interactive cultural experiences through social media Part III: Sense of Place 9. Mosaics and multiples: Online digital photography and the framing of heritage 10. Mobile Ouija Boards 11. Extending connections between land and people digitally: Designing with rural Herero communities in Namibia 12. Situating the sociability of interactive museum guides Afterword
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