Public heritage and the promise of the digital

Kidd, Jenny ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0188-2140 2018. Public heritage and the promise of the digital. Labrador, Angela M. and Asher Silberman, Neil, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Public Heritage Theory and Practice, Oxford Handbooks, Oxford University Press, pp. 197-208. (10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190676315.013.9)

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Abstract

The “promise” of the digital has been a democratization of the notion of heritage, and a disruption of ideas about ownership, authorship, and authenticity that might have seemed more straightforward in the recent past. This chapter overviews the possibilities brought about by these developments before introducing a series of ethical questions that they bring sharply into focus for museum and heritage practitioners. It appraises three practices which exemplify this conflicted terrain and demonstrate the issues at stake: heritage institutions’ uses of social media, crowd-based methods, and immersive mobile encounters. The chapter concludes that reflexivity is fast becoming a core professional competency for those working in digital heritage contexts.

Item Type:	Book Section
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Journalism, Media and Culture
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
ISBN:	9780190676315
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	10 August 2018
Last Modified:	07 Dec 2022 15:57
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/111034

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