num_pages: 480
description: In Theorizing Digital Cultural Heritage experts offer a critical and theoretical appraisal of the uses of digital media by cultural heritage institutions. Previous discussions of cultural heritage and digital technology have left the subject largely unmapped in terms of critical theory; the essays in this volume offer this long-missing perspective on the challenges of using digital media in the research preservation management interpretation and representation of cultural heritage. The contributors--scholars and practitioners from a range of relevant disciplines--ground theory in practice considering how digital technology might be used to transform institutional cultures methods and relationships with audiences. The contributors examine the relationship between material and digital objects in collections of art and indigenous artifacts; the implications of digital technology for knowledge creation documentation and the concept of authority; and the possibilities for virtual cultural heritage--the preservation and interpretation of cultural and natural heritage through real-time immersive and interactive techniques.The essays in Theorizing Digital Cultural Heritage will serve as a resource for professionals academics and students in all fields of cultural heritage including museums libraries galleries archives and archaeology as well as those in education and information technology. The range of issues considered and the diverse disciplines and viewpoints represented point to new directions for an emerging Arbach Juan Antonio Barcel Deidre Brown Fiona Cameron Erik Champion Sarah Cook Jim Cooley Bharat Dave Suhas Deshpande Bernadette Flynn Maurizio Forte Kati Geber Beryl Graham Susan Hazan Sarah Kenderdine Jos Ripper Ks Harald Kraemer Ingrid Mason Gavan McCarthy Slavko Milekic Rodrigo Paraizo Ross Parry Scot T. Refsland Helena Robinson Angelina Russo Corey Timpson Marc Tuters Peter Walsh Jerry Watkins Andrea Witcomb
language: English
title: Theorizing Digital Cultural Heritage: A Critical Discourse
publisher: The MIT Press