Geopolitics of Digital Heritage

Geopolitics of Digital Heritage analyzes and discusses the political implications of the largest digital heritage aggregators across different scales of governance, from the city-state governed Singapore Memory Project, to a national aggregator like Australia's Trove, to supranational digital heritage platforms, such as Europeana, to the global heritage aggregator, Google Arts & Culture. These four dedicated case studies provide focused, exploratory sites for critical investigation of digital heritage aggregators from the perspective of their geopolitical motivations and interests, the economic and cultural agendas of involved stakeholders, as well as their foreign policy strategies and objectives. The Element employs an interdisciplinary approach and combines critical heritage studies with the study of digital politics and communications. Drawing from empirical case study analysis, it investigates how political imperatives manifest in the development of digital heritage platforms to serve different actors in a highly saturated global information space, ranging from national governments to transnational corporations.

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• Authors: Natalia Grincheva, Natalia (University of the Arts Singapo Grincheva, Natalia (University of the Arts Singapore and The University of Melbourne) Grincheva, Elizabeth Stainforth, Elizabeth (University of Leeds) Stainforth, Stainforth Elizabeth
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.02.2024
• EAN: 9781009500142
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0950014-2
• No. of pages: 102
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 230 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Print on Demand; Elements in Critical Heritage Studies
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; History, Geopolitics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Archaeology, Archiving, preservation & digitisation, History and Archaeology, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies, Archiving, preservation and digitization