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The Future of Digital Data, Heritage and Curation critiques digital
cultural heritage concepts and their application to data,
developing new theories, curatorial practices and a more-than-human
museology for a contemporary and future world. Presenting a diverse
range of case examples from around the globe, Cameron offers a
critical and philosophical reflection on the ways in which digital
cultural heritage is currently framed as societal data worth
passing on to future generations in two distinct forms: digitally
born and digitizations. Demonstrating that most perceptions of
digital cultural heritage are distinctly western in nature, the
book also examines the complicity of such heritage in climate
change, and environmental destruction and injustice. Going further
still, the book theorizes the future of digital data, heritage,
curation and the notion of the human in the context of the
profusion of new types of societal data and production processes
driven by the intensification of data economies and through the
emergence of new technologies. In so doing, the book makes a case
for the development of new types of heritage that comprise AI,
automated systems, biological entities, infrastructures, minerals
and chemicals - all of which have their own forms of agency,
intelligence and cognition. The Future of Digital Data, Heritage
and Curation is essential reading for academics and students
engaged in the study of museums, archives, libraries, galleries,
archaeology, cultural heritage management, information management,
curatorial studies and digital humanities.
The Future of Digital Data, Heritage and Curation critiques digital
cultural heritage concepts and their application to data,
developing new theories, curatorial practices and a more-than-human
museology for a contemporary and future world. Presenting a diverse
range of case examples from around the globe, Cameron offers a
critical and philosophical reflection on the ways in which digital
cultural heritage is currently framed as societal data worth
passing on to future generations in two distinct forms: digitally
born and digitizations. Demonstrating that most perceptions of
digital cultural heritage are distinctly western in nature, the
book also examines the complicity of such heritage in climate
change, and environmental destruction and injustice. Going further
still, the book theorizes the future of digital data, heritage,
curation and the notion of the human in the context of the
profusion of new types of societal data and production processes
driven by the intensification of data economies and through the
emergence of new technologies. In so doing, the book makes a case
for the development of new types of heritage that comprise AI,
automated systems, biological entities, infrastructures, minerals
and chemicals - all of which have their own forms of agency,
intelligence and cognition. The Future of Digital Data, Heritage
and Curation is essential reading for academics and students
engaged in the study of museums, archives, libraries, galleries,
archaeology, cultural heritage management, information management,
curatorial studies and digital humanities.
This open access book explores the multiple forms of curatorial
agencies that develop when museum collection digitisations,
narratives and new research findings circulate online. Focusing on
Viking Age objects, it tracks the effects of antagonistic debates
on discussion forums and the consequences of search engines,
personalisation, and machine learning on American-based online
platforms. Furthermore, it considers eco-systemic processes
comprising computation, rare-earth minerals, electrical currents
and data centres and cables as novel forms of curatorial actions.
Thus, it explores curatorial agency as social constructivist,
semiotic, algorithmic, and material. This book is of interest to
scholars and students in the fields of museum studies, cultural
heritage and media studies. It also appeals to museum practitioners
concerned with curatorial innovation at the intersection of
humanist interpretations and new materialist and more-than-human
frameworks.
This open access book explores the multiple forms of curatorial
agencies that develop when museum collection digitisations,
narratives and new research findings circulate online. Focusing on
Viking Age objects, it tracks the effects of antagonistic debates
on discussion forums and the consequences of search engines,
personalisation, and machine learning on American-based online
platforms. Furthermore, it considers eco-systemic processes
comprising computation, rare-earth minerals, electrical currents
and data centres and cables as novel forms of curatorial actions.
Thus, it explores curatorial agency as social constructivist,
semiotic, algorithmic, and material. This book is of interest to
scholars and students in the fields of museum studies, cultural
heritage and media studies. It also appeals to museum practitioners
concerned with curatorial innovation at the intersection of
humanist interpretations and new materialist and more-than-human
frameworks.
This book critiques modern museologies and curatorial practices
that have been complicit in emerging existential crises. It
confidently presents novel, more-than-human curatorial visions,
methods, frameworks, policies, and museologies radically refiguring
the epistemological foundations of curatorial, museological
thinking and practice for a habitable planet. Modern curatorial and
museological practices, are dominated by modern humanism in which
capital growth, social, technological advancement, hubris,
extraction, speciest logics and colonial domination predominate,
often without reflection. While history, science and technology
museums and their engagement with non-human worlds have always been
ecological as an empirical reality, the human-centred frameworks
and forms of human agency that institutions deploy tend to be
non-cognizant of this reality. Museum Practices and the
Posthumanities reveals how these practices are ill-equipped to deal
with the contemporary world of rapid digital transformations,
post-Covid living, climate change and its impacts among other
societal changes, and it shows how museums might best meet these
challenges by thinking with and in more-than-human worlds. This
book is aimed at museological scholars and museum professionals,
and it will provide them with the inspiration to conduct research
on and curate from a different ecological reference point to
promote a world good enough for all things to thrive in radical
co-existence.
This book critiques modern museologies and curatorial practices
that have been complicit in emerging existential crises. It
confidently presents novel, more-than-human curatorial visions,
methods, frameworks, policies, and museologies radically refiguring
the epistemological foundations of curatorial, museological
thinking and practice for a habitable planet. Modern curatorial and
museological practices, are dominated by modern humanism in which
capital growth, social, technological advancement, hubris,
extraction, speciest logics and colonial domination predominate,
often without reflection. While history, science and technology
museums and their engagement with non-human worlds have always been
ecological as an empirical reality, the human-centred frameworks
and forms of human agency that institutions deploy tend to be
non-cognizant of this reality. Museum Practices and the
Posthumanities reveals how these practices are ill-equipped to deal
with the contemporary world of rapid digital transformations,
post-Covid living, climate change and its impacts among other
societal changes, and it shows how museums might best meet these
challenges by thinking with and in more-than-human worlds. This
book is aimed at museological scholars and museum professionals,
and it will provide them with the inspiration to conduct research
on and curate from a different ecological reference point to
promote a world good enough for all things to thrive in radical
co-existence.
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