Theorizing Digital Cultural Heritage
Subtitle: A Critical Discourse (Media in Transition)
Contributors: Fiona Cameron (Editor); Sarah Kenderdine (Editor)
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: April 30, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 528
ISBN-13: 9780262033534
Subjects: Cultural studies; Media Studies; Social Science; Sociology; Computer Science; Social Science / Media Studies; Cultural property; Digital art; Digitization; Library materials
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.