Total Recall: How Cultural Heritage Communities Use Digital Initiatives and Platforms for Collective Remembering

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 235-253
Author(s):  
Brant Burkey
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Total Recall ◽  
Digital Collections ◽  
Digital Heritage ◽  
Collective Remembering ◽  
Media Applications ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Research Collective

This article argues that digital heritage initiatives, where cultural heritage institutions offer more interactive possibilities with their digital collections through multimodal platforms and social media applications, provide new territory for memory scholars to explore how heritage communities collectively remember in the digital age. Through in-depth interviews and participant observations of practitioners and participants from three cultural heritage institutions, the findings show that digital heritage initiatives offer new circumstances and venues to observe, interpret, and research collective remembering, as well as illustrate how heritage communities can use these multimodal platforms as means for sharing collective remembrance.

From Bricks to Clicks: How Digital Heritage Initiatives Create a New Ecosystem for Cultural Heritage and Collective Remembering

2021 ◽  
pp. 019685992110411
Author(s):  
Brant Burkey
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Qualitative Studies ◽  
The Past ◽  
Historical Societies ◽  
Digital Heritage ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Collective Remembering ◽  
Extended View ◽  
Depth Interviews

Cultural heritage institutions, such as museums, libraries, archives, and historical societies, are increasingly using digital heritage initiatives and social media platforms to connect and interact with their heritage communities. This creates a new memory ecosystem whereby heritage communities are invited to contribute, participate with, and share more of what they are interested in collectively remembering, rather than simply accepting the authoritative narratives of heritage institutions, which raises questions about what this means for cultural heritage writ large and whose versions of the past these heritage communities will hold onto as their digital inheritance. The primary contributions of this article are to provide both an extended view of the issue by building on several qualitative studies involving in-depth interviews and digital observations with eight cultural heritage communities over a five-year period and to better understand how their digital heritage initiatives are creating a new ecosystem for cultural heritage and collective remembering.

scholarly journals Approaches to 'place': A study exploring how New Zealand's digital collections conceptualise our social understanding of space

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Flora Feltham
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
Mixed Methods Study ◽  
Web Content ◽  
Digital Collections ◽  
Geospatial Technology ◽  
Digital Heritage ◽  
Heritage Collections

<p>Research problem: The concept of ‘place’ has a clear presence in New Zealand’s digital heritage collections. However, some theorists suggest there is gap between place as a concept relevant to cultural heritage concerns and place as represented by digital technology. This research explores how geospatial and digital technology deployed in New Zealand’s digital collections engage with and conceptualise qualities usually associated with place: social bonds, emotional attachment and subjectivity.  Methodology: This two-stage, mixed-methods study has a qualitative weighting. Web Content analysis (WebCA) gathered data from digital collections that demonstrate place inclusive features. An anonymous survey gathered opinions from practitioners who create place-inclusive digital collections. Descriptive statistics developed during quantitative analysis triangulated findings developed during thematic qualitative analysis.  Results: New Zealand’s digital collections generate a sense-of-place using strategies that mimic subjective and experience-based understanding of the world. Some collections also engage with place in its ‘common-sense wrapper’ by using the deploying the place in a metadata context or as an overarching thematic structure. New Zealand’s cultural heritage practitioners are very practice-oriented in their consideration of place, and place-inclusive collections are most often impacted by resourcing issues.  Implications: This project contributes to the growing ‘body of sustained critical thinking’ focusing on the implications of digital technology for cultural heritage concerns. It suggests place has considerable value and multiple functions within digital heritage collections. When conducting projects using geospatial technology, heritage practitioners can consider supplementing geospatial technology with user-contribution features, content variety, and an emphasis on storytelling to effectively reflect the subjective components of place.</p>

scholarly journals Approaches to 'place': A study exploring how New Zealand's digital collections conceptualise our social understanding of space

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Flora Feltham
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
Mixed Methods Study ◽  
Web Content ◽  
Digital Collections ◽  
Geospatial Technology ◽  
Digital Heritage ◽  
Heritage Collections

<p>Research problem: The concept of ‘place’ has a clear presence in New Zealand’s digital heritage collections. However, some theorists suggest there is gap between place as a concept relevant to cultural heritage concerns and place as represented by digital technology. This research explores how geospatial and digital technology deployed in New Zealand’s digital collections engage with and conceptualise qualities usually associated with place: social bonds, emotional attachment and subjectivity.  Methodology: This two-stage, mixed-methods study has a qualitative weighting. Web Content analysis (WebCA) gathered data from digital collections that demonstrate place inclusive features. An anonymous survey gathered opinions from practitioners who create place-inclusive digital collections. Descriptive statistics developed during quantitative analysis triangulated findings developed during thematic qualitative analysis.  Results: New Zealand’s digital collections generate a sense-of-place using strategies that mimic subjective and experience-based understanding of the world. Some collections also engage with place in its ‘common-sense wrapper’ by using the deploying the place in a metadata context or as an overarching thematic structure. New Zealand’s cultural heritage practitioners are very practice-oriented in their consideration of place, and place-inclusive collections are most often impacted by resourcing issues.  Implications: This project contributes to the growing ‘body of sustained critical thinking’ focusing on the implications of digital technology for cultural heritage concerns. It suggests place has considerable value and multiple functions within digital heritage collections. When conducting projects using geospatial technology, heritage practitioners can consider supplementing geospatial technology with user-contribution features, content variety, and an emphasis on storytelling to effectively reflect the subjective components of place.</p>

Analisis Pengembangan Fitur Obrolan Baru Berbasis Scan QR Code Pada Aplikasi Paziim

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-25
Author(s):  
Ike Yunia Pasa ◽  
Fuad Rifqi Zamzami
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Qr Code ◽  
Chat Room ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Quick Response ◽  
Speed Up ◽  
Media Applications ◽  
Depth Interviews

Quick Response (QR) Code is an image in the form of a two-dimensional matrix that has the ability to save the data in it. The QR Code feature is added to several social media, especially the Paziim chat application which aims to speed up starting a new chat with people who are not yet on the phone's contact list.The research method in the form of an interpretive qualitative approach is carried out with in depth interviews in several informants, observation and data collection at PT. Paziim AIO Platformindo. The results of the research in the form of the Paziim QR code feature can be developed to minimize the time to add new chat, features can help maintain privacy between users, scan QR Code accounts enter the chat room with contact add or block options, features can be used based on the version settings in the application Paziim and the new chat feature on Paziim which is the work of the nation's children can also be a differentiator with similar foreign-owned social media applications.

scholarly journals On Social Media: The Voices of Blaan Students in Digital Age

2021 ◽  
pp. 21-34
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Joy S. Quijano
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Time Management ◽  
Total Population ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Linguistic Groups ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Depth Interviews

This study aims to describe indigenous peoples’ use of social media. There are 110 ethno-linguistic groups in the Philippines who comprise nearly 15 percent of total population. Majority of indigenous peoples live in the island of Mindanao. Phenomenology was used for this study in explaining the experiences and perspectives of the Blaan students in using social media. Twenty-five Blaan students from Matanao, Davao del Sur were selected through purposive sampling. Through in-depth interviews and focus group discussion it was revealed that entertainment and leisure, emotional trauma and discrimination, research and educational purposes, and communication and socialization were the issues related to the Blaan students’ experiences on using social media. As regards insights in using social media, they identified time management, stand against discrimination, staying hopeful and positive, respecting and promoting culture, and prioritizing education. This study has significance not only in but also in the indigenous peoples’ cultural community in terms of promoting and preserving culture in the digital age. 

Professional and Business Applications of Social Media Platforms

2017 ◽  
pp. 427-450 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kijpokin Kasemsap
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Business Performance ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Business Applications ◽  
The World ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Strategic Goals ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Media Applications

This chapter provides an overview of the challenges and benefits of social media across various industries. The use of social media has created the highly effective communication platforms where any user, virtually anywhere in the world, can freely create the content and disseminate this information in real time to a global audience. The chapter argues that professional and business applications of social media platforms can enhance business performance toward reaching strategic goals in the digital age. What are keeping various industries awake these days? Why are social media applications important to various industries? How do social media platforms apply for professional and business perspectives across various industries?

Sustainable Broadcasting in Africa: Insights From Two South African Campus Radio Stations

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 189-220
Author(s):  
Patient Rambe ◽  
Nnamdi O. Madichie
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
South African ◽  
Social Sustainability ◽  
Economic Sustainability ◽  
University Campus ◽  
Radio Stations ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social And Economic Development ◽  
Media Applications ◽  
Depth Interviews

University campus-based community radio stations (CRS) are widely acknowledged as vehicles for supporting grassroot social and economic development. Despite these stations' popularity, the emerging technologies they exploit to advance such development initiatives, including their exact impact on their economic and social sustainability, remains a grey area. The objectives of this study are two-fold. First, to establish the social media applications that university-based CRS in South Africa employ in fulfilling their broadcasting mandates. Second, to examine how the utilisation of these applications impact the economic/ financial and social sustainability of these stations and their listenership. Drawing insights from in-depth interviews with presenters, station and programme managers, the study found limited appropriation of WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, station websites, livestreams and podcasts for content programming and broadcasting. Furthermore, while it was unclear how social media livestreaming contributed to economic sustainability, its effects on social sustainability found expression in connecting advertisers to livestreams to support real-time advertising. The implications of these are discussed.

Professional and Business Applications of Social Media Platforms

2019 ◽  
pp. 824-847 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kijpokin Kasemsap
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Business Performance ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Business Applications ◽  
The World ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Strategic Goals ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Media Applications

This chapter provides an overview of the challenges and benefits of social media across various industries. The use of social media has created the highly effective communication platforms where any user, virtually anywhere in the world, can freely create the content and disseminate this information in real time to a global audience. The chapter argues that professional and business applications of social media platforms can enhance business performance toward reaching strategic goals in the digital age. What are keeping various industries awake these days? Why are social media applications important to various industries? How do social media platforms apply for professional and business perspectives across various industries?

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