Can I read Heritage and Social Media : Understanding Heritage in a Participatory Culture on EtoBox?

Heritage and Social Media : Understanding Heritage in a Participatory Culture by Elisa Giaccardi is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Heritage and Social Media : Understanding Heritage in a Participatory Culture about?

__Heritage and Social Media__ explores how social media reframes our understanding and experience of heritage. Through the idea of ‘participatory culture’ the book begins to examine how social media can be brought to bear on the encounter with heritage and on the socially produced meanings and values that individuals and communities ascribe to it. To highlight the specific changes produced by social media, the book is structured around three major themes: * __Social Practice.__ New ways of understanding and experiencing heritage are emerging as a result of novel social practices of collection, representation, and communication enabled and promoted by social media. * __Public Formation.__ In the presence of widely available social technologies, peer-to-peer activities such as information and media sharing are rapidly gaining momentum, as they increasingly promote and legitimate a participatory culture in which individuals aggregate on the basis of common interests and affinities. * __Sense of Place.__ As computing becomes more pervasive and digital networks extend our surroundings, social media and technologies support new ways to engage with the people, interpretations and values t

Who reads Heritage and Social Media : Understanding Heritage in a Participatory Culture?

Author

Elisa Giaccardi

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780203112984

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Sociology, History