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

Taylor, Joel; Gibson, Laura Kate

doi:10.1080/13527258.2016.1171245

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“…At first glance it also appears perfectly reasonable that the resulting initiatives to engage likeminded organisations and individuals are associated with efforts to counter the authorised heritage discourse that portrays heritage as an exclusive expert domain. A more nuanced reading of Smith and Waterton's work, however, highlights that efforts to democratise often operate within the broader reaches of their authorised heritage discourse, characterised by the naturalisation of certain conceptions of heritage and how it is identified, studied, used and cared for (Taylor and Gibson 2016). In this context, Rosol's identification of community gardens in Berlin as both a form of bottom-up 'grassroots urbanism' and as the 'neo-liberalisation of urban governance' is instructive (2016,86,87).…”

Section: Unmasking Neoliberal Approachesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Endangerment-driven heritage volunteering: democratisation or ‘Changeless Change’

Fredheim

2017

International Journal of Heritage Studies

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This article is the product of prolonged wrestling with the question of how heritage professionals and researchers can facilitate and sustain public agency in caring for heritage in the UK during austerity without exploiting volunteers or devaluing professionals. It offers critical perspectives on efforts made to democratise heritage in the UK by increasing public participation through a critique of neoliberalism and the rise of neoliberal approaches in the heritage sector. It argues that the adoption of neoliberal approaches, such as crowdsourcing, that profess to democratise yet reinforce existing power structures, is the inevitable result of insisting on protecting material culture from harm, despite the continuing accumulation of more 'heritage'. Drawing on critical perspectives on participation from a number of disciplines, it is suggested that efforts to increase public participation in heritage cannot hope to avoid exploiting volunteers, devaluing professionals and marginalising traditionally underrepresented demographics unless they also let go of the perceived need to protect the materiality of the past. Drawing on Sarah May's archaeology of contemporary tigers, this article argues that the application of endangerment narratives to heritage reinforces uncritical understandings of both heritage and volunteering that preclude heritage from fulfilling its potential function as a contemporary social process.

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Section: Unmasking Neoliberal Approachesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Endangerment-driven heritage volunteering: democratisation or ‘Changeless Change’

Fredheim

2017

International Journal of Heritage Studies

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“…; Dallas ; Gold and Klein ; Grosman ; Hart ; Plog et al. ; Porter ; Taylor and Gibson ). In the article, “Issues and Directions in Phytolith Analysis,” Thomas Hart () points out that one of the important recent advances in phytolith studies has emerged with the creation of online databases.…”

Section: Collaborations In Archaeological Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

“…For example, Thomas Hart () observes that for as many active online databases in phytoliths, there are an equal number of inactive ones (see Hart , Table 1). In turn, Joel Taylor and Laura Kate Gibson () find that while the role of social media and more “publically accessible” Internet sites (such as Wiki Loves Monuments and online museum collections) are celebrated as democratizing cultural heritage, they continue to reinforce power imbalances and hegemonic discourses.…”

Section: Collaborations In Archaeological Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

Anthropological Archaeology in 2016: Cooperation and Collaborations in Archaeological Research and Practice

Halperin

2017

American Anthropologist

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Ideas of collaboration and cooperation are often implicit, taken-for-granted elements in archaeological models and theorizing. Overshadowed by a growing archaeological preoccupation with warfare, violence, conflict, and crisis, cooperative acts and collaborative dispositions appear to lack the same emotional resonance and changestimulating properties that attract archaeological attention. Nonetheless, many archaeological publications in 2016 directly take on notions of collaboration in thinking about the past and our roles as archaeologists and as citizens of the future. This review underscores the significance of thinking about collaboration and cooperation as ambiguous, ambivalent, multiscalar, and dynamic. At issue is not just the creation of community but also of getting things done and, of course, celebrating, revising, or reworking the intended or unintended consequences of those actions over the generations. [archaeology, collaboration, cooperation] RESUMEN Las ideas de colaboración y cooperación son a menudo elementos implícitos, que se dan por sentados en los modelos y teorización arqueológicos. Opacados por una creciente preocupación arqueológica por la guerra, la violencia, el conflicto, y la crisis, a los actos cooperativos y disposiciones colaborativas parecen faltarles la misma resonancia emocional y propiedades estimulantes de cambio que atraen la atención arqueológica. No obstante, muchas publicaciones arqueológicas en 2016 empiezan directamente a tratar las nociones de colaboración, reflexionando acerca del pasado y nuestros roles como arqueólogos y como ciudadanos del futuro. Esta revisión enfatiza la importancia de considerar la colaboración y cooperación como ambiguas, ambivalentes, de múltiples escalas, y dinámicas. En cuestión no sólo está la creación de comunidad, sino también el lograr que se hagan las cosas, y por supuesto, celebrar, revisar, o rehacer las consecuencias planeadas o no planeadas de esas acciones sobre generaciones. [arqueología, colaboración, cooperación]

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“…The latest trends explore the use and impact of information and communication technologies [2,3] in these cross-cutting areas. Such is the case of social networks [4][5][6][7], e-WOM [8], applications for mobile devices [9,10], big data [11,12], virtual and augmented reality [13,14] and video games [15,16].…”

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How Do Destinations Frame Cultural Heritage? Content Analysis of Portugal’s Municipal Websites

Piñeiro-Naval

Serra

2019

Sustainability

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In the current media context, heavily influenced by information and communication technologies, tourism destinations have a need to promote the most outstanding aspects of their cultures to attract the visitors who stimulate their economies. Websites are one of the tools available to carry out this task and they must be designed to communicate the destinations' heritages persuasively to a worldwide audience. Taking these premises into consideration, the objective of this research is to analyze the cultural heritage content on Portugal's municipal websites. The specific goals are to classify the most recurrent heritage elements and detect how they frame identity based on the 'local-global dialectic'. The results show that the heritage discourse is built on the selection of certain aspects-namely, culinary and architectural assets-which are emphasized through the combined use of local and national frames that strengthen the municipalities' particular values but also the fact that they are integrated into a broader and unified whole: Portugal.Sustainability 2019, 11, 947 2 of 18 objectives are to identify the most recurrent cultural and natural heritage assets and the framing of identity in these elements based on the local-global dialectic.The organization of the paper is as follows: we first delve into theoretical synergies between the domains of culture, heritage and tourism, and then consider online communication as one of the core elements of the identity discourse related to these fields. Next, the method used in the research is presented, that is, the quantitative content analysis of the country's 308 websites. The results, which reflect both univariable and multivariable descriptive data, are presented and this is followed by a qualitative discussion. Finally, the conclusions highlight some key ideas derived from the research, as well as theoretical and methodological implications, limitations and future research lines. Literature ReviewThis chapter provides a brief overview of related theoretical work and the state of the art in these fields.2.

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

Cited by 89 publications

References 43 publications

Endangerment-driven heritage volunteering: democratisation or ‘Changeless Change’

Endangerment-driven heritage volunteering: democratisation or ‘Changeless Change’

Anthropological Archaeology in 2016: Cooperation and Collaborations in Archaeological Research and Practice

How Do Destinations Frame Cultural Heritage? Content Analysis of Portugal’s Municipal Websites

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