Critical and reflective uses of new media technologies in tribal museums

Srinivasan, Ramesh; Enote, Jim; Becvar, Katherine; Boast, Robin

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“…This is achieved by building accessible databases that are constructed around cultural meaning rather than operating systems (Srinivasan et al 2009;Srinivasan 2013) and facilitating social history groups in constructing their narratives around their local environment (Giannachi et al 2014). Consequently, the same actors are able to find new ways for values to be expressed and communicated, and for the public to appropriate and communicate their heritage values.…”

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confidence: 99%

Digitisation, digital interaction and social media: embedded barriers to democratic heritage

Taylor

Gibson

2016

International Journal of Heritage Studies

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Section: Grassroots Projectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Digitisation, digital interaction and social media: embedded barriers to democratic heritage

Taylor

Gibson

2016

International Journal of Heritage Studies

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“…; Hennessy ). These studies demonstrate how source communities are appropriating digital technologies to support cultural self‐representation by creating and managing websites, video projects, and so forth (Srinivasan , ). One of the most well‐known examples is the Reciprocal Research Network (RRN) in Canada.…”

Section: Digital Technologies and Source Communitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Digital Heritage, Knowledge Networks, and Source Communities: Understanding Digital Objects in a Melanesian Society

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2014

Museum Anthropology

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This article investigates digital heritage technologies from a Melanesian perspective. It explores—in the context of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea—the types of values placed on digital surrogates as a means to engage critically with recent debates on “digital” or “virtual” repatriation. It raises the question as to whether digital knowledge resources such as 3D digital objects are really seen as secondary or “second best” to the original or whether digital technologies reproduce, in new form, an economy of objects that sustains knowledge and revival practices. As a way to address this, the Mobile Museum pilot project was launched in January 2012 to help support the Nalik people of New Ireland reconnecting with and researching their cultural heritage in Queensland museums. This article demonstrates, in contrast to recent calls for an ideological return to the status of the museum object as put forward by Conn (2010), how ethnographic objects should be understood in terms of their performativity, mobility, and virtuality, which render them operative far beyond the physical realms of museum institutions. [digital heritage, digital repatriation, ethnographic collections, cultural revitalization, Melanesia]

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“…Cohen could have also consulted the growing body of literature on contemporary indigenous museums, for example the edited volume on the National Museum of the American Indian by Lonetree and Cobb (2008). Similarly, scholarship exploring the intersections of museums and media could have informed this study (Hooper-Greenhill, 1995;Isaac, 2008;Spigel, 2008), and some scholars have specifically explored the topic of indigenous museum media and communication (Brady 2009;Isaac, 2007;Dickinson, Ott, & Aoki, 2006;Srinivasan, Enote, Becvar, & Boast, 2009). Regardless of Cohen's attempts to branch out methodologically, his work is strongest in its historical approach.…”

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The Networked Wilderness: Communicating in Early New England, by Cohen, M.

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2011

The Communication Review

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In The Networked Wilderness, Matt Cohen discusses a number of communication systems within the Euro-Indigenous contact zones of early New England through a broad, cultural reading of what constitutes media, and, in the process, he disrupts academic divides that continue to treat oral and written/print cultures as distinct. Cohen is certainly not the first to denaturalize the binary treatment of media cultures influenced by Walter Ong's work, but he makes the convincing case that well-entrenched ideological divides within academic fields like the history of the book and American Indian studies, as well as strategic and political constructs of Native/non-Native identities, continue to reproduce the divide by emphasizing difference. Although American Indian studies recognizes the value of oral tradition, performance, and symbolic forms of record and signification such as wampum and totem, scholars of the history of the book have privileged Eurocentric print cultures and the well-established methods used to study them. The latter celebrates European technologies and texts as particularly conducive to free thinking and democracy but does not adequately consider associated performative acts, according to Cohen. He models an expansion of more insular approaches and the ways in which they might mutually inform one another. Cohen's cultural and contextual work troubles the excessively celebratory ideals of literacy and the static identity constructs found in historic and modern articulations of indigeneity.The Networked Wilderness is refreshing in its exploration of some not-so-obvious examples of communication systems. Cohen's approach is influenced by Michel de Certeau, Michel Foucault, and Raymond Williams, and like a number of cultural studies scholars, he understands media and communication broadly. He treats objects such as traps, maypoles, paths, and human bodies as well their intersections with performative acts as important components of "messaging systems" (p. 4). For example, traps were important subsistence tools in early New England that also provided clues as to who or what was moving through a particular region, including animals, people, and information. Similarly, Cohen successfully demonstrates the ways in which print texts are performative like speech acts, for example, through their formats, margins, strategic wording, script, subtler

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Critical and reflective uses of new media technologies in tribal museums

Cited by 28 publications

References 34 publications

Digitisation, digital interaction and social media: embedded barriers to democratic heritage

Digitisation, digital interaction and social media: embedded barriers to democratic heritage

Digital Heritage, Knowledge Networks, and Source Communities: Understanding Digital Objects in a Melanesian Society

The Networked Wilderness: Communicating in Early New England, by Cohen, M.

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