Digital heritage research re-theorised: ontologies and epistemologies in a world of big data

Bonacchi, Chiara; Krzyzanska, Marta

doi:10.1080/13527258.2019.1578989

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“…It shows the living heritage sustainability in the historic area of Kudus Kulon. This result is following the opinions of Bonacchi & Krzyzanska (2019), Havinga et al (2019), Seduikyte et al (2018), and also Wikantari (1999).…”

Section: Toward Sustainable Preservation Of 'Omah Pencu'supporting

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“…One of them uses the interpretative mapping method, which could be accomplished either a derivation from cartographic or an independent form of sense or impression (Hossain & Barata, 2019). Meanwhile, digital mapping positions heritage as part of the big data and relates to the social web (Bonacchi & Krzyzanska, 2019) for global use and access. The theoretical exploration and empirical conditions above remind the importance of mapping Omah Pencu in Kudus Kulon's historic area towards sustainable preservation.…”

Section: Mapping Omah Pencu Toward Sustainable Preservationmentioning

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Toward Sustainable Preservation of Cultural Heritage Buildings: A Combination of Digital Mapping and Architectural mapping for Omah Pencu in the Historic Area of Kudus Kulon

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This study aims to map the existence of the wooden houses of Omah Pencu and classifies their potencies as heritage buildings in the historic area of Kudus Kulon. Caring for indigenous cultural heritage will contribute to the strengthening of local identity. The traditional houses of Omah Pencu have been developing as the specific architecture since the end of the 17'th century, as a living place of the ‘Gusjigang' community, and artifacts evident of the city heyday. However, the pressure of modernization-capitalization in the city caused several changes in their built environment and decreased the number of Omah Pencu. This research concern with the GIS interpretation methods and the direct observations use the questionnaire, interview, and architectural documentation. The findings provide an important database for preservation in the digital era. The digital mapping, combined with the mapping of tangible and intangible buildings, produces digital information about the Omah Pencu building condition that has never been done before. Through this mapping, found that the participation effort of the community caused the sustainability of preservation. It is a very significant bottom-up participation. However, toward sustainable preservation, a strategy, planning, design, and management that integrated all stakeholders and resources by utilizing digital technology are needed.

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Toward Sustainable Preservation of Cultural Heritage Buildings: A Combination of Digital Mapping and Architectural mapping for Omah Pencu in the Historic Area of Kudus Kulon

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“…Finally, we can briefly reflect on the afterlives of heritage-based tribalism in the form of future (data) heritages. The data we used to undertake our research is more than just a source of information: it is also heritage in the making (Bonacchi and Krzyzanska, 2019). It was deployed and re-hashed to generate social divisions, but its agency is curtailed over time, when a topic is no longer the centre of public attention and Twitter discussions have moved elsewhere.…”

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Heritage-based tribalism in Big Data ecologies: Deploying origin myths for antagonistic othering

Bonacchi

Krzyzanska

2021

Big Data & Society

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This article presents a conceptual and methodological framework to study heritage-based tribalism in Big Data ecologies by combining approaches from the humanities, social and computing sciences. We use such a framework to examine how ideas of human origin and ancestry are deployed on Twitter for purposes of antagonistic ‘othering’. Our goal is to equip researchers with theory and analytical tools for investigating divisive online uses of the past in today’s networked societies. In particular, we apply notions of heritage, othering and neo-tribalism, and both data-intensive and qualitative methods to the case of people’s engagements with the news of Cheddar Man’s DNA on Twitter. We show that heritage-based tribalism in Big Data ecologies is uniquely shaped as an assemblage by the coalescing of different forms of antagonistic othering. Those that co-occur most frequently are the ones that draw on ‘Views on Race’, ‘Trust in Experts’ and ‘Political Leaning’. The framings of the news that were most influential in triggering heritage-based tribalism were introduced by both right- and left-leaning newspaper outlets and by activist websites. We conclude that heritage-themed communications that rely on provocative narratives on social media tend to be labelled as political and not to be conducive to positive change in people’s attitudes towards issues such as racism.

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“…This aims to enhance the recent empirical work of archaeological scholars (e.g. Bonacchi, Altaweel & Krzyzanska 2018;Bonacchi & Krzyzanska 2019;Huffer & Graham 2017; which have not included explicit discussions of the methodological challenges of this type of research. This position paper should, I hope, encourage further robust, critical discussion amongst heritage and archaeological researchers working with contemporary digital data.…”

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Using Social Media as a Source for Understanding Public Perceptions of Archaeology: Research Challenges and Methodological Pitfalls

Richardson¹

2019

Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology

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Digital social science research has had an important impact on the types of methodological approaches to the internet and digital social phenomena, practices and communities. Whilst this paper does not seek to include empirical data, it aims to elaborate further on these debates in digital social research, that is, research on 'life in digital society' (Lindgren 2017: 230), using insights from my own research methods. This paper will firstly consider some methodological pitfalls that could sabotage our digital social archaeology research. It will then discuss the importance of understanding the framework and sources of our data. It will outline the two main methodological approaches I have used in my own empirical research to date -'thick' social media data collection and analysis, and digital ethnography. It will discuss some of the many ethical considerations that must be assessed and implemented when undertaking this type of work. I will argue for a methodological pragmatism when undertaking social research in the fields of archaeology and heritage, although this pragmatism can be applied to any field of social study in the digital world.

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Digital heritage research re-theorised: ontologies and epistemologies in a world of big data

Cited by 27 publications

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Toward Sustainable Preservation of Cultural Heritage Buildings: A Combination of Digital Mapping and Architectural mapping for Omah Pencu in the Historic Area of Kudus Kulon

Toward Sustainable Preservation of Cultural Heritage Buildings: A Combination of Digital Mapping and Architectural mapping for Omah Pencu in the Historic Area of Kudus Kulon

Heritage-based tribalism in Big Data ecologies: Deploying origin myths for antagonistic othering

Using Social Media as a Source for Understanding Public Perceptions of Archaeology: Research Challenges and Methodological Pitfalls

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