Heritage and social media : understanding heritage in a participatory culture / edited by Elisa Giaccardi.

London : Routledge, 2012.

xvii, 251 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

1st ed.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: reframing heritage in a participatory culture / Elisa Giaccardi -- Social practice -- Collective memory as affirmation : people-centered cultural heritage in a digital age / Neil Silberman, Margaret Purser -- Socially distributed curation of the bhopal disaster : a case of grassroots heritage in the crisis context / Sophia B. Liu -- Museum of the self and digital death : an emerging curatorial dilemma / Stacey Pitsillides, Janis Jefferies, Martin Conreen -- Social traces : participation and the creation of shared heritage / Luigina Ciolfi -- Public formation -- Remembering together : social media and the formation of the historical present / Roger I. Simon -- Heritage knowledge, social media, and the sustainability of the intangible / Dagny Stuedahl, Christina Mortberg -- Connecting to everyday practices : experiences from the digital natives exhibition / Ole Sejer Iversen, Rachel Charlotte Smith -- The rise of the media museum : creating interactive cultural experiences through social media / Angelina Russo -- Sense of place -- Mosaics and multiples : online digital photography and the framing of heritage / Richard Coyne -- Mobile ouija boards / Chris Speed -- Extending connections between land and people digitally : designing with rural herero communities in Namibia / Nicola Bidwell, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus -- Situating the sociability of interactive museum guides / Ron Wakkary, Audrey Desjardins, Kevin Muise, Karen Tanenbaum, Marek Hatala -- Afterword by peter wright -- .