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This book offers a critical and theoretical appraisal of the uses of digital media by cultural heritage institutions. Previous discussions of cultural heritage and digital technology have left the subject largely unmapped in terms of critical theory; the chapters in this book offer this long-missing perspective on the challenges of using digital media in the research, preservation, management, interpretation, and representation of cultural heritage. The book examines the relationship between material and digital objects in collections of art and indigenous artifacts; the implications of digita ... More
Keywords: digital media, cultural heritage institutions, critical theory, material objects, digital objects, artifacts, digital technology, knowledge creation, documentation
Print publication date: 2007 | Print ISBN-13: 9780262033534 |
Published to MIT Press Scholarship Online: August 2013 | DOI:10.7551/mitpress/9780262033534.001.0001 |
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