Grassroots heritage in the crisis context: a social media probes approach to studying heritage in a participatory age

Authors:
Sophia B. Liu
Affiliations:
University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
Venue:
CHI '10 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Year:
2010

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Abstract

Social media technologies are rapidly changing the way people create, share, and experience memories especially around crises. When collective memory is generated on a societal scale and shared across generations over time, this practice assumes social and cultural significance and becomes a heritage matter. Emerging uses of social media are generating new kinds of heritage practices from the bottom-up, what I call "grassroots heritage." This interdisciplinary design study works at the intersection of social media and cultural heritage in the crisis context using a variant method called "social media probes." I present a grassroots heritage framework with design ideas for facilitating "socially-distributed curation" to guide future HCI research in the heritage domain.