Theorizing digital cultural heritage: a critical discourse

Abstract

Critical and theoretical appraisal of the uses of digital media by cultural heritage institutions. Essays about the challenges of using digital media in the research, preservation, management, interpretation, and representation of cultural heritage. How might digital technology be used to transform institutional cultures, methods, and relationships with audiences? Examination of the relationship between material and digital objects in collections of art and indigenous artifacts; the implications of digital technology for knowledge creation, documentation, and the concept of authority; and the possibilities for "virtual cultural heritage", the preservation and interpretation of cultural and natural heritage through real-time, immersive, and interactive techniques.