Digital collections in cultural memory - Katherine Howells, Digikult 2019
Channel: Kulturutveckling VGR
Date: 10/06/2019

Tracking how users remember and reuse collection images in the digital sphere.

Focusing on British war propaganda images, this presentation shows a method of tracking how internet users reuse and engage with digitised collection images. This helps to highlight the long-term cultural impacts of images and inform institutional decisions on how collections are managed and promoted.

Katherine Howells is a PhD student in Digital Humanities at King’s College London. Her research explores the lasting impact of war propaganda images on British cultural memory. She uses digital methods to investigate how images are used online and what this tells us about their influence in society.

Filmed by David Eric Nilsson (Graph Wizz Films)