Herausforderung Demokratie

Chiara Zuanni (Zentrum für informationsmodellierung): Memory institutions and everyday digital practices: Uses of cultural heritage and online 'culture wars'
11.01.2023
19:00 - 20:30
Arbeitsgemeinschaft Demokratieforschung der geisteswissenschaftlichen Fakultät
HS 06.03, Universitätsplatz 6, 8010 Graz

The digitization of cultural heritage is often presented as a democratizing process, offering a broader access to the material and immaterial heritage that informs a community's identity. Digital media have also empowered cimmunities in participatiing in the interpretation of cultural heritage. However, this digital transformation also presents challendes in regards to the possibilities of institutions that partake in it, the information and narratives that are shared, and the voices that are included in the process. This talk will draw on digital museology and critical heritage studies research to explore the uses of the past in a digital society and the EU policies in regards of heritage digitization and data, considerung their relations to ideas of democracy.