1st Edition
Heritage and Social Media Understanding heritage in a participatory culture
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
Biography
Elisa Giaccardi is Chair of Interactive Media Design at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. She works at the intersection of interaction design and social media, with an active interest in living heritage practices. Her contributions to this subject comprise research and design work on collective memories, affective geographies, and emerging curatorial practices.
“Heritage and Social Media is an important book, which advances the digital heritage literature beyond the methodological discussions of how to archive the past—a theme that has tended to dominate this genre… Debate and research in both museum and heritage studies are moving past essentialist ideas that heritage can be equated simply to objects and sites…This book belongs within the context of this developing critical debate… [and] can cast new analytical light on the nature, practices, and consequences of heritagemaking.” - Laurajane Smith, Australian National University
“With Heritage and Social Media: Understanding Heritage in a Participatory Culture Elisa Giaccardi has produced an edited volume that contributes to the existing body of studies concerned with museum and heritage sites…The strength of this book is…the excellent… case studies the various authors draw on in their analysis of the impact of social media on heritage production and management…the issues discussed in this book are of relevance to a range of modern institutions and organisation that see themselves confronted with stakeholders whose social media activities challenge positions of authority and control that defined prior times.” - Dirk vom Lehn, King’s College London
