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Réf.
41409
Type
conference item
Titre
Transmitting the Spirit of Place in the Age of Web Wisdom?
Langues
English
Auteurs
Burke, Sheridan
Date
2008
Pages
12 p.
Titre de conférence
16th ICOMOS General Assembly and International Symposium: ‘Finding the spirit of place – between the tangible and the intangible’
Lieu de conférence
Québec, Canada
Date de conférence
29 sept – 4 oct 2008
Mots-clés
spirit of place / charters / information and communication technologies / Internet / doctrine / interpretation / presentation / dissemination / transmission / World Heritage
Résumé en anglais
The new generation of internet communication istransforming human relations and cross cultural communication in
previously unimaginable and dynamically plural ways. Thepresentation/interpretation of places and indeed of national identity
through heritage values and places is no longer predominantly inthe hands of governments as a political tool or those of experts in
academic research—it’s also powerfully present on Wikipedia andYouTube and every social networking site yet to be imagined.
When the YouTube video of the Yolngu Chooky Dancers ofArnhem Land dancing Zorba the Greek went live in 2007,
thousands of hits were registered in a matter of hours, andinternational interest has not abated. The results of recent internet
voting for the New Seven Wonders of the World also exemplifythese opportunities and challenges of transmitting heritage values.
This paper will examine these issues and the impacts which theglobalisation of communication will have on transmitting the spirit
of heritage place in an age of web wisdoms.
previously unimaginable and dynamically plural ways. Thepresentation/interpretation of places and indeed of national identity
through heritage values and places is no longer predominantly inthe hands of governments as a political tool or those of experts in
academic research—it’s also powerfully present on Wikipedia andYouTube and every social networking site yet to be imagined.
When the YouTube video of the Yolngu Chooky Dancers ofArnhem Land dancing Zorba the Greek went live in 2007,
thousands of hits were registered in a matter of hours, andinternational interest has not abated. The results of recent internet
voting for the New Seven Wonders of the World also exemplifythese opportunities and challenges of transmitting heritage values.
This paper will examine these issues and the impacts which theglobalisation of communication will have on transmitting the spirit
of heritage place in an age of web wisdoms.
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