Chiara Zuanni
Biographic Data
| ID | 1505455 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chiara Zuanni |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chiara |
| FAMILY NAME | Zuanni |
| SIGNATURE | ZUANNI C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Graz |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4027-0278 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Digital Transformation in the Cultural Heritage Sector and Its Impacts on Sustainable Regional Development in Peripheral Regions
Digital transformation as a strategic goal is not new in the cultural heritage sector, yet it gained momentum due to COVID-19. This is reflected in policies and national strategies across Europe, where digitalisation is often seen as key to sustainable development. This study focuses on small heritage institutions in peripheral settings and explores the opportunities and limitations of digitalisation and its impact on sustainable regional develop…
Object biographies in the digital age
This paper explores how the framework of object biographies can be used to analyse our digital activities, both disseminating and expanding these same biographies. During the digitisation and cataloguing processes, biographies are not only – and in limited format – recorded, but are also expanded by the affordances of the digital medium. Similarly, digital interpretation and engagement programmes, and their reception by museum audiences contribut…
Critical Public Archaeology
Critical approaches to public archaeology have been in use since the 1980s, however only recently have archaeologists begun using critical theory in conjunction with public archaeology to challenge dominant narratives of the past. This volume brings together current work on the theory and practice of critical public archaeology from Europe and the United States to illustrate the ways that implementing critical approaches can introduce new underst…
Contemporary Collecting in a Pandemic
This paper draws on a survey of contemporary collecting projects aiming to document the COVID-19 pandemic in museums and other memory organizations. The survey focused on European memory organizations and investigated the practices they adopted in collecting, accessioning, recording, preserving, and displaying material and immaterial witnesses of the pandemic. This paper presents the results of the survey, with a particular attention on the chall…
Special Issue Editorial
The editorial provides a broad contextualization of recent and developing theoretical and empirical examinations of digital materiality in museums. This Special Issue includes seven papers, which cover a range of theorizations, issues and challenges that arise in the intersection of digital and materiality in museum and heritage contexts
Theorizing Born Digital Objects
This paper explores the characteristics of born digital objects and how their materiality is framed and transformed in the musealization process. It draws on vibrant materialism and web archiving, framing born digital objects as assemblages and proposing a distinction between these and reborn digital objects, i.e. their collected counterparts. The paper relates this new framing of digital objects to established museological frameworks, such as an…
The mystery of the "spinning statue" at Manchester Museum
This paper discusses the emergence, and impact, of public perceptions of Ancient Egypt and diverse ideas of “magic” at the Manchester Museum, following the huge response to the episode of the “spinning statuette.” In June 2013, a video of an Egyptian statuette spinning of its own accord in its case in the Egypt Gallery of the Manchester Museum went viral. During the media storm that followed the publication of the video, many hinted at a “magic e…
Cataloging Magic
This Introduction, by the co-editors of this special issue, outlines the background to, and aims of “Cataloguing Magic.” It considers the ambiguity of the term “magic” and how it will be employed in relation to museum contexts throughout the issue, before specifying the broad questions this issue aims to address. The co-editors then detail the issue’s international contributors, who include academic researchers and curators, and the contexts in w…
Archeologia Pubblica in Italia (Florence, 2012)
The first Italian Congress of Public Archaeology was held in Florence at the end of October. It was promoted by the University of Florence and the Florence
Unintended Collaborations
This article analyses the online reactions to a 'viral' video of an Egyptian artefact displayed in the Manchester Museum. It discusses the circulation of the video and the interpretations of this episode emerging from casual online conversations. Behind professionally led initiatives, audiences are contributing in a variety of ways on social media to disseminate and interpret archaeological news. This article discusses how user-generated data cou…
Unintended Collaborations
This article analyses the online reactions to a 'viral' video of an Egyptian artefact displayed in the Manchester Museum. It discusses the circulation of the video and the interpretations of this episode emerging from casual online conversations. Behind professionally led initiatives, audiences are contributing in a variety of ways on social media to disseminate and interpret archaeological news. This article discusses how user-generated data cou…
Theorizing Born Digital Objects
This paper explores the characteristics of born digital objects and how their materiality is framed and transformed in the musealization process. It draws on vibrant materialism and web archiving, framing born digital objects as assemblages and proposing a distinction between these and reborn digital objects, i.e. their collected counterparts. The paper relates this new framing of digital objects to established museological frameworks, such as an…
Contemporary Collecting in a Pandemic
This paper draws on a survey of contemporary collecting projects aiming to document the COVID-19 pandemic in museums and other memory organizations. The survey focused on European memory organizations and investigated the practices they adopted in collecting, accessioning, recording, preserving, and displaying material and immaterial witnesses of the pandemic. This paper presents the results of the survey, with a particular attention on the chall…
Special Issue Editorial
The editorial provides a broad contextualization of recent and developing theoretical and empirical examinations of digital materiality in museums. This Special Issue includes seven papers, which cover a range of theorizations, issues and challenges that arise in the intersection of digital and materiality in museum and heritage contexts
The mystery of the "spinning statue" at Manchester Museum
This paper discusses the emergence, and impact, of public perceptions of Ancient Egypt and diverse ideas of “magic” at the Manchester Museum, following the huge response to the episode of the “spinning statuette.” In June 2013, a video of an Egyptian statuette spinning of its own accord in its case in the Egypt Gallery of the Manchester Museum went viral. During the media storm that followed the publication of the video, many hinted at a “magic e…
Archeologia Pubblica in Italia (Florence, 2012)
The first Italian Congress of Public Archaeology was held in Florence at the end of October. It was promoted by the University of Florence and the Florence
Unintended Collaborations
This article analyses the online reactions to a 'viral' video of an Egyptian artefact displayed in the Manchester Museum. It discusses the circulation of the video and the interpretations of this episode emerging from casual online conversations. Behind professionally led initiatives, audiences are contributing in a variety of ways on social media to disseminate and interpret archaeological news. This article discusses how user-generated data cou…
The mystery of the "spinning statue" at Manchester Museum
This paper discusses the emergence, and impact, of public perceptions of Ancient Egypt and diverse ideas of “magic” at the Manchester Museum, following the huge response to the episode of the “spinning statuette.” In June 2013, a video of an Egyptian statuette spinning of its own accord in its case in the Egypt Gallery of the Manchester Museum went viral. During the media storm that followed the publication of the video, many hinted at a “magic e…
Cataloging Magic
This Introduction, by the co-editors of this special issue, outlines the background to, and aims of “Cataloguing Magic.” It considers the ambiguity of the term “magic” and how it will be employed in relation to museum contexts throughout the issue, before specifying the broad questions this issue aims to address. The co-editors then detail the issue’s international contributors, who include academic researchers and curators, and the contexts in w…
Special Issue Editorial
The editorial provides a broad contextualization of recent and developing theoretical and empirical examinations of digital materiality in museums. This Special Issue includes seven papers, which cover a range of theorizations, issues and challenges that arise in the intersection of digital and materiality in museum and heritage contexts
Theorizing Born Digital Objects
This paper explores the characteristics of born digital objects and how their materiality is framed and transformed in the musealization process. It draws on vibrant materialism and web archiving, framing born digital objects as assemblages and proposing a distinction between these and reborn digital objects, i.e. their collected counterparts. The paper relates this new framing of digital objects to established museological frameworks, such as an…
Critical Public Archaeology
Critical approaches to public archaeology have been in use since the 1980s, however only recently have archaeologists begun using critical theory in conjunction with public archaeology to challenge dominant narratives of the past. This volume brings together current work on the theory and practice of critical public archaeology from Europe and the United States to illustrate the ways that implementing critical approaches can introduce new underst…
Contemporary Collecting in a Pandemic
This paper draws on a survey of contemporary collecting projects aiming to document the COVID-19 pandemic in museums and other memory organizations. The survey focused on European memory organizations and investigated the practices they adopted in collecting, accessioning, recording, preserving, and displaying material and immaterial witnesses of the pandemic. This paper presents the results of the survey, with a particular attention on the chall…
Object biographies in the digital age
This paper explores how the framework of object biographies can be used to analyse our digital activities, both disseminating and expanding these same biographies. During the digitisation and cataloguing processes, biographies are not only – and in limited format – recorded, but are also expanded by the affordances of the digital medium. Similarly, digital interpretation and engagement programmes, and their reception by museum audiences contribut…
Digital Transformation in the Cultural Heritage Sector and Its Impacts on Sustainable Regional Development in Peripheral Regions
Digital transformation as a strategic goal is not new in the cultural heritage sector, yet it gained momentum due to COVID-19. This is reflected in policies and national strategies across Europe, where digitalisation is often seen as key to sustainable development. This study focuses on small heritage institutions in peripheral settings and explores the opportunities and limitations of digitalisation and its impact on sustainable regional develop…
Art (6 works) · History (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Archaeological Research and Protection (4 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Museums and Cultural Heritage (4 works) · Visual arts (4 works) · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation (3 works)