Dalyvaujamasis paveldas socialiniuose tinkluose: pagrindinių teorinių sąvokų aiškinimas

The field researching cultural heritage communication on social networking sites, is still developing its theoretical foundations, while participatory heritage, as one of the newest concepts born in this field, is still lacking its grounded conceptualization, especially emerging from practice-based research studies. This theoretical study suggests to integrate different theoretical considerations that derives from cultural heritage studies, social networking sites research and theory of participation, and proposes to refine the concept of participatory heritage believing that the primary understanding of the context as “participatory” lies not in the environment itself, but in the activity that takes place in it. Therefore, I offer that participatory heritage could be understood as a new shift in cultural heritage practice that emerge through collaboration and communication of people on social networking sites.Ši teorinė diskusija yra skirta žmonių dalyvavimo kultūros paveldo veiklose, pasitelkiant socialinius tinklus, teoriniam laukui aptarti ir pagrindinėms vartojamoms sąvokoms, tokioms kaip socialinės medijos, socialinės tinklaveikos svetainės, virtuali bendruomenė, dalyvaujamoji kultūra, žmonių paveldas, žmonių įsitraukimas ir dalyvavimas, paaiškinti. Straipsnyje taip pat pristatoma ir nauja, bei menkai tyrinėta dalyvaujamojo paveldo (angl. participatory heritage) sąvoka, kurios vartojimo problematika aptariama dalyvaujamosios kultūros socialiniuose tinkluose kontekste

European Survey on Scholarly Practices and Digital Needs in the Arts and Humanities

This report summarizes the statistical analysis of the findings of a web-based survey conducted by the Digital Methods and Practices Observatory (DiMPO), a working group under VCC2 of the DARIAH research infrastructure (Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities). In order to provide an evidence-based, up-to-date, and meaningful account of the emerging information practices, needs and attitudes of arts and humanities researchers in the evolving European digital scholarly environment, the web survey involved a transnational team of researchers from more than a dozen countries, and addressed digitally-enabled research practices, attitudes and needs in all areas of Europe and across different arts and humanities disciplines and contexts

Dalyvaujamasis paveldas: žmonių kultūros paveldo lietuviškų „Facebook“ bendruomenių daugybinių atvejų tyrimas

Disertacija atskleidžia žmonių dalyvavimo kultūros paveldo veiklose, pasitelkiant socialinės tinklaveikos svetaines, svarbą. Tai vienintelis tokios plačios apimties tyrimas, kuris pateikia holistinį požiūrį į žmonių dalyvavimą šalies mastu, analizuojant daugybinius atvejus ir duomenis, surinktus iš 266 „Facebook“ bendruomenių. Dalyvaujamojo paveldo koncepto aiškinimas šiame darbe remiasi tarpdisciplininiais tyrimais, integruojant skirtingas teorines prieigas, kurios apjungia dalyvavimo teorijas, „įsitraukimo“ sąvokos konceptualizacijas, o taip pat ir platų dalyvavimo pasireiškimų kultūros paveldo srityje tyrimų spektrą bei socialinių medijų tyrimus. Dėmesys žmonių iniciatyvoms yra grindžiamas šio tyrimo siekiu, įvertinti esamas dalyvavimo veiklas skaitmeninio kultūros paveldo srityje, kurias įgalina ir skatina socialinės tinklaveikos svetainės. Akcentuojant mokslinių tyrimų šia tema trūkumą, šio darbo tikslas yra pasiūlyti išsamesnį ir tikslesnį dalyvaujamojo paveldo koncepto aiškinimą, pagrįstą žmonių kultūros paveldo veiklos „Facebook“ platformoje analize (Lietuvos atvejo studija). Šis tyrimas apima ir įvertina esamas neformalias kultūros paveldo bendruomenes („Facebook“ puslapius ir grupes), sukurtas neinstituciniuose rėmuose, ir siekia įvertinti jų vaidmenį, formuojant dalyvaujamojo paveldo paradigmą. Šis aiškinimas yra grindžiamas empiriniais duomenimis, užfiksuotais ir surinktais „Facebook“ platformoje, ir pateikia išvadas pagrindžiančius daugybinių atvejų analizės pavyzdžius.The dissertation reveals the importance of grassroots participation in cultural heritage activities through social networking sites. It is the only study that provides a holistic approach to people participation based on a country-scale study, analyzing a wide range of cases and data collected from 266 „Facebook“ communities. The conceptualization of participatory heritage integrates an interdisciplinary research corpus, that combines the theory of participation, engagement, as well as a wide range of participatory cultural heritage and social media research. The aim of this study is to assess existing grassroots participatory activities in the field of digital cultural heritage that is enabled and promoted by social networking sites. Emphasizing the lack of research on this topic, the aim of this dissertation is to better understand the participatory heritage and to offer a more accurate interpretation of the concept based on the analysis of grassroots cultural heritage activities on Lithuanian „Facebook“ communities. This study analyses existing non-formal cultural heritage communities (pages and groups) created outside institutional boundaries and seeks to assess their role in shaping the participatory heritage paradigm. The study takes into account evidence-based data collected on the „Facebook“ platform and provides examples from multiple case studies

Defining scholarly practices, methods and tools in the Lithuanian digital humanities research community

The article discusses the current situation in the adoption of digital tools and practices in the humanities and arts in Lithuania, based on a major European survey conducted by the Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH) in 2014 and 2015. The survey was aimed at understanding existing scholarly practices, methods and tools that are applied by researchers, as well as attitudes towards digital technologies in research and scholarship. This article analyzes specific aspects of scholarly research activities and digital needs in Lithuania, and provides evidence-based insights on the national digital humanities landscape

Participatory heritage: a multiple-case study of Lithuanian grassroots cultural heritage communities on Facebook

The dissertation reveals the importance of grassroots participation in cultural heritage activities through social networking sites. It is the only study that provides a holistic approach to people participation based on a country-scale study, analyzing a wide range of cases and data collected from 266 „Facebook“ communities. The conceptualization of participatory heritage integrates an interdisciplinary research corpus, that combines the theory of participation, engagement, as well as a wide range of participatory cultural heritage and social media research. The aim of this study is to assess existing grassroots participatory activities in the field of digital cultural heritage that is enabled and promoted by social networking sites. Emphasizing the lack of research on this topic, the aim of this dissertation is to better understand the participatory heritage and to offer a more accurate interpretation of the concept based on the analysis of grassroots cultural heritage activities on Lithuanian „Facebook“ communities. This study analyses existing non-formal cultural heritage communities (pages and groups) created outside institutional boundaries and seeks to assess their role in shaping the participatory heritage paradigm. The study takes into account evidence-based data collected on the „Facebook“ platform and provides examples from multiple case studies

Mining social media for museum quality evaluation /

The recent explosion of social media and data analytics provides museums with new challenges and opportunities to develop enhanced knowledge and establish more effective strategies for visitor relationship management and service quality. In this chapter, we introduce a methodological framework and applied case study demonstrating how museums can establish an evidence-based quality evaluation process, based on a systematic analysis of large-scale visitor responses in online social media platforms, and use it to improve the quality of their offering to local and global communities. We introduce MUSEQUAL, a five-dimensional model for museum quality assessment, extending the HOTELQUAL standard for quality evaluation in the hospitality sector, and show how it can leverage an analysis of social media content extracted from TripAdvisor and Facebook to provide evidence-based insights for improving museum service provision in the dimensions of Display, Subject matter, Facilities, Services and Staff. Based on this model, we present, firstly, an automated analysis of several thousand user comments on TripAdvisor from three European museums using software and, secondly, a qualitative data analysis of visitor reviews of these museums on Facebook. Finally, on the basis of a critical summary of findings, we identify challenges and offer guidance on how such an approach may be used by museum professionals without specialised training in complex research methods and tools, to conduct a practical evaluation of complementary dimensions of museum provision, pointing to potential improvements in different aspects of museum work

An Ontology of Semiotic Activity and Epistemic Figuration of Heritage, Memory and Identity Practices on Social Network Sites

This study presents the construction and validation of a formal conceptual model, or domain ontology, useful for the formal representation and analysis of conversations on heritage, memory and identity (HMI) on social network sites (SNS), of interviews with participants in such conversations, and of scholarly works engaging with such phenomena. The ontology provides for the first time a conceptual framework for HM interactions on SNS addressing the semiotic and discursive nature of such interactions in the context of cultural-historical activity theory and semiosphere theory. Part of the Connective Digital Memory in the Borderlands research project, it is developed using an evidence-based knowledge elicitation and domain modeling approach. The study presents the three components of the ontology: an event-centric core conceptual model, an inductively derived concept taxonomy, and a meta-theoretical conceptual scheme, based on a combination of conceptual analysis and lexical analysis of relevant scholarly literature. To validate the ontology, it then provides an example of how it can be used to represent an actual HMI-related SNS conversation and scholarly intervention using knowledge graphs, a quantitative analysis of the occurrence of taxonomy terms in different subfields of HMI on SNS studies, a qualitative analysis of concepts used in studies on non-professional, archeological, and institutional heritage communication on SNS, and a meta-theoretical account of studies of HMI on SNS. The ontology can be used as a framework for theorization and for the development of data models, questionnaire protocols, thematic analysis vocabularies, and analysis queries relevant to HMI on SNS research

Functional requirements, design and implementation of a social network research data archive.

In the era of digital communication, social networking platforms have become important tools for the creation and dissemination of collective memory and identity. However, the dynamic nature of these platforms, together with their commercial nature and limited archiving capabilities, pose a number of challenges for researchers seeking to research conversations on heritage, history, memory and identity on social networking sites. This article presents a digital research data archive that helps address these challenges, and also shares best practices in creating and practically applying this archive, enabling the semantic and comprehensive collection, storage, visualization, and analysis of social media discussions