First Australians using mediatisation to preserve, maintain and promote cultural heritage

Abstract

This article offers an insight into the relationships between deep mediatisation and the preservation, maintenance and promotion of First Australian cultural heritage by exploring three related themes. First, it provides an up-to-date analysis of the theory of mediatisation from a theoretical perspective, including the leading research and methodological perceptions of mediatisation. Second, it highlights First Australian creativity and innovation in their adoption of new media technologies, using the frameworks of mediatisation to establish sustainable new revenue streams in the global digital economy. Finally, it discusses how mediatisation helps to promote and strengthen community connections by focusing attention on social and cultural affairs in a First Australian context.

Traces of Social Binding: Interpretive Tracing as a Bridging Concept

“…A recent collaborative study (Robinson, 2020) looking at how the emergent processes of mediatization are adopted and adapted to preserve, maintain, and promote traditional Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social and cultural values illustrated another perspective in the epistemology of deciphering traces. To understand the complexity required when interpreting traces that are both ancient and non-linear in nature requires an entirely different mindset form everything so far posited by contemporary Western social sciences.…”