Heritage-making 'from below
The politics of exhibiting architectural heritage on the Internet - a case study
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5700792 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anita Aigner (0000-0002-5990-2354, TU Wien, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 181-199 |
| Publication date | 2016-03-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Heritage Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1352-7258 • E-ISSN: 1470-3610 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13527258.2015.1107615 |
| OpenAlex | W2252410014 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 25 |
The ‘digital revolution’ created new opportunities for private persons to participate in the public discourse on architecture and architectural heritage. But has this new ‘participatory culture’ also triggered democratic polyphony and a questioning of dominant (expert) values and knowledge? And when considering official Internet representations – is there a proactive policy involving citizens? Taking the ‘virtual life’ of the Vienna Werkbund estate (1932), a modernist icon listed as a national monument in 1978, as a case study, the present examination tempers exaggerated hopes. The analysis of private and official websites shows that new information and communication technologies foster the expression of different viewpoints only to a limited extent. Although residents use the Internet to voice criticism, actors situated outside expert culture primarily reaffirm the estate’s cultural value and act as co-producers of the dominant discourse. Focusing on official heritage, this paper not only provides evidence for the perpetuating function of new digital tools but also reveals the power relations that underpin paternalistic cultural mediation. Given the technological possibilities of involvement, it criticises official web representations for the exclusion of ‘the public’ and raises the fundamental question of what the digital mediation of cultural heritage in democratic societies should look like
Aesthetics · Cultural heritage · Democracy · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · The Internet · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · Law · Museums and Cultural Heritage · Visual Culture and Art Theory
Heritage and Social Media
Reading Images
Uses of Heritage
Discipline and Punish
The field of cultural production
Discipline and Punish
The Birth of the Clinic
Legislators and interpreters
The Cultural Moment in Tourism
Bastard Culture! How User Participation Transforms Cultural Production
The Tourist Gaze 3.0
Langage et pouvoir symbolique
The Rules of Art
Mediating the Tourist Experience
Material Culture (review)
Sights of sites
Culture, heritage and representation
Mediating Tourist Experiences
Mediating the tourist experience
The birth of the clinic
The birth of the museum
Picturing practices
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |