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Participatory archives in a world of ubiquitous media book cover

1st Edition

Participatory archives in a world of ubiquitous media

Edited By Natalie Pang, Kai Khiun Liew, Brenda Chang Copyright 2015
112 Pages
by Routledge

112 Pages
by Routledge

The media environment of today is characterised by two critical factors: the development and adoption of ubiquitous mobile devices, and the strengthening of connectivity enabled by advances in ICT infrastructure and social media platforms. These developments have changed interactions and relationships between citizens and cultural custodians, as well as the ways archives are developed, kept, and... Read more

1. Participatory archives in a world of ubiquitous media Natalie Pang, Kai Khiun Liew and Brenda Chan

2. Designing dynamic descriptive frameworks Joanne Evans

3. Keepers of Ghosts: old signs, new media and the age of archival flux Lisa Cianci and Stefan Schutt

4. Convergence, connectivity, ephemeral and performed: new characteristics of digital photographs Jessica Bushey

5. Visualising Famagusta: interdisciplinary approaches to the study of the Orthodox Cathedral of Saint George of the Greeks in Famagusta, Cyprus Sven J Norris, Michael JK Walsh and Thomas A Kaffenberger

6. Digital archives and metadata as critical infrastructure to keep community memory safe for the future – lessons from Japanese activities Shigeo Sugimoto

7. Collecting the easily missed stories: digital participatory microhistory and the South Asian American Digital Archive Michelle Caswell and Samip Mallick

8. Archiving the wild, the wild archivist: Bukit Brown Cemetery and Singapore’s emerging ‘docu-tivists’ Natalie Pang and Liew Kai Khiun

Biography

Natalie Pang is an Assistant Professor at the School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University. Her primary research interest is in participatory archives and civic engagement, and information behaviour in contexts of new media and crises.

Liew Kai Khiun is an Assistant Professor at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information at the Nanyang Technological University. His research interests include Popular Culture Studies, Cultural Memories and Heritage Studies.

Brenda Chan is an independent scholar with research interests in the relationships between new media, heritage and memories.

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