Digitality: A reality check

Bowen, Jonathan P.; Giannini, Tula

doi:10.14236/ewic/eva2021.3

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“…Human engagement with computational culture has grown exponentially during the Covid-19 pandemic, increasing peoples digital experiences [9][30], so that much of a person s average day is spent engaging in a virtual world, in which everyday life activities are translated into digital states of being and interaction to the point where real life often feels disconnected from the physical world. A new virtual culture is developing that depends on a computational framework enhanced by new computing power that incorporates all digital media through computational methods in ways that mirror the human senses of seeing, hearing, talking, visual recognition, and touch, potentially transmitted over neural networks simulating the human brain, set in a framework of artificial intelligence and machine learning.…”

Section: Computational Culture and Ai -A New Framework For Online/ons...mentioning

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“…Driven by the global digital ecosystem that merges diverse cultures and heritage landscapes, computational culture brings vast archival resources together to serve 21 st century needs in education, digital research, and human inquiry, while also facilitating a human-centered approach. Since the Covid-19 pandemic took hold in March 2020, we continue to witness computational culture and digitality gain new ground with unprecedented speed as real life continues to be subsumed by virtual life [9]. This enables emerging technological trends to become fully entrenched in day-to-day life as online education replaces face-to-face teaching, learning, and social interaction.…”

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Computational Culture: Transforming Archives Practice and Education for a Post-Covid World

Giannini

Bowen

2022

J. Comput. Cult. Herit.

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This paper takes a landscape view of archives practice now operating in a sea of human digital behavior, interacting with computational systems embedded in real and virtual life, part of our complex global digital ecosystem driving cultural and social change. We envision a new computational archives framework, designed to be user-centric, in ways that integrate traditional archival practice into an overarching computational framework incorporating structured and unstructured data, computational tools, AI (artificial intelligence), ML (machine learning), robotics, and automation intended to aid in management and public engagement with physical, digitized, and born-digital documents. Set in a networked environment of increasing computing power, this “more than human” system derives from the latest computing advances from NLP (natural language processing) and image recognition to artificial neural networks. We envision an archives system that is at once complex and integrated into a new inclusive and diverse cultural fabric. This paper covers general issues that have been accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic, together with two institutional case studies.

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Section: Computational Culture and Ai -A New Framework For Online/ons...mentioning

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Computational Culture: Transforming Archives Practice and Education for a Post-Covid World

Giannini

Bowen

2022

J. Comput. Cult. Herit.

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“…Although the advance of digitality is inevitable [20,21], there are critical choices in how and where it is applied, why and for what purpose and outcomes, how it serves and enhances human experience, education, quality of life, and importantly, the roles and responsibilities reserved for human work and participation that will more and more be a measure of human relationships with AI systems and robots.…”

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Museums and Digital Culture: From Reality to Digitality in the Age of Covid-19

Giannini¹,

Bowen²

2021

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Museums increasingly recognize the need to address advances in digital culture which impact the expectations and needs of their audiences. Museum collections of real objects need to be presented both on their own premises and digitally online, especially as social media becomes more and more influential in people’s everyday lives. We investigate these challenges magnified by advances in digital and computational media and culture looking particularly at recent and relevant reports on changes in the ways museums interact with the public. We find that the Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated many of the changes driving museum transformation. We believe that museums must be more prepared than ever to adapt to unabated technological advances set in the midst of cultural and social revolution, now intrinsic to the digital landscape in which museums are inevitably connected and participating across the global digital ecosystem where they inevitably find themselves entrenched.

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“…Thus, if upon entering the museum there are no digital dimensions to be found, many visitors are likely to feel isolated. As reality more than ever bows to digitality and virtuality [1], intensified by the coming-soon Metaverse, the incarnation of virtual worlds, where human identity is being absorbed in avatar states of being. Surely, it is time for computational culture to take its place in physical museums and connect with the global cultural community and ecosystem.…”

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Global Cultural Conflict and Digital Identity: Transforming Museums

Giannini¹,

Bowen²

2023

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This paper looks at key elements of global culture that are driving a new paradigm shift in museums causing them to question their raison d'être, their design and physical space, recognizing the need to accommodate visitor interaction and participation, and to reprioritize institutional outcomes and goals reexamining their priorities. As heritage sharing in online spaces reaches across national, political, and social boundaries on platforms and networks, this has been driven by museum engagement with Internet life during the pandemic. Museum relationships and interactions with communities both local and global, continue to challenge core values and precepts, leading to radical changes in how museums define their roles and responsibilities. In this new cultural landscape, museums are responding to human digital identity in a tidal wave of human interactions on the Internet, from social media to online sharing of images and videos. This is revealing shared perspectives on cultural conflict as being tied to freedom of expression of one’s heritage embedded in digital identity.

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Digitality: A reality check

Cited by 8 publications

References 29 publications

Computational Culture: Transforming Archives Practice and Education for a Post-Covid World

Computational Culture: Transforming Archives Practice and Education for a Post-Covid World

Museums and Digital Culture: From Reality to Digitality in the Age of Covid-19

Global Cultural Conflict and Digital Identity: Transforming Museums

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