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

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

Difficult heritage on social network sites: An integrative review

Social network sites (SNS) have recently become an active ground for interactions on contested and dissonant heritage, on the heritage of excluded and subaltern groups, and on the heritage of collective traumatic past events. Situated at the intersection between heritage studies, memory studies, Holocaust studies, social media studies and digital heritage studies, a growing body of scholarly literature has been emerging in the past 10 years, addressing online communication practices on SNS. This study, an integrative review of a comprehensive corpus of 80 scholarly works about difficult heritage on SNS, identifies the profile of authors contributing to this emerging area of research, the increasing frequency of publication after 2017, the prevalence of qualitative research methods, the global geographic dispersion of heritage addressed, and the emergence of common themes and concepts derived mostly from the authors ‘home’ fields of memory studies, heritage studies and (digital) media studies

Archaeological Knowledge Production and Global Communities: Boundaries and Structure of the Field

Archaeology and material cultural heritage enjoys a particular status as a form of heritage that, capturing the public imagination, has become the locus for the expression and negotiation of regional, national, and intra-national cultural identities. One important question is: why and how do contemporary people engage with archaeological heritage objects, artefacts, information or knowledge outside the realm of an professional, academically-based archaeology? This question is investigated here from the perspective of theoretical considerations based on Yuri Lotman’s semiosphere theory, which helps to describe the connections between the centre and peripheries of professional archaeology as sign structures. The centre may be defined according to prevalent scientific paradigms, while periphery in the space of creolisation in which, through interactions with other culturally more distant sign structures, archaeology-related nonprofessional communities emerge. On the basis of these considerations, we use collocation analysis on representative English language corpora to outline the structure of the field of archaeology-related nonprofessional communities, identify salient creolised peripheral spaces and archaeology-related practices, and develop a framework for further investigation of archaeological knowledge production and reuse in the context of global archaeology