Social Ecology of Museums in the Digital Domain

Amareswar Galla

Chapter 11.2 in Emerging Digital Spaces in Contemporary Society, 2010, pp 272-273 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The museum is universally considered as an institution in the service of society. Museums are increasingly being developed in a postcolonial environment as civic spaces for critical community engagement, to safeguard intangible heritage and cultural diversity as the common heritage of humanity. However, the application of digital technologies has largely remained in the domain of tangible heritage and mostly monocultural contexts. In fact, the accelerated pace of digital globalization and the inadequate social contextu-alization of technologies has become a major threat to cultural diversity of the world.

Keywords: Cultural Diversity; Digital Technology; Social Ecology; Digital Domain; Common Heritage (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230299047_44

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