Photosharing on Flickr:intangible heritage and emergent politics

Garduno Freeman, C

Photosharing on Flickr:intangible heritage and emergent politics

Garduno Freeman, C

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Publisher:: Routledge
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: International Journal of Heritage Studies, 2010, 16 (4-5), pp. 352 - 368
Issue Date:: 2010-01

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dc.contributor.author	Garduno Freeman, C	en_US
dc.date.issued	2010-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	International Journal of Heritage Studies, 2010, 16 (4-5), pp. 352 - 368	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1470-3610	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/13854
dc.description.abstract	This paper argues that Flickr, a popular 'photosharing' website, is facilitating new public engagements with world heritage sites like the Sydney Opera House. Australian heritage institutions (namely libraries and museums) have recently begun to employ Flickr as a site through which to engage communities with their photographic archives and collections. Yet Flickr is more than an 'online photo album': it is a social and cultural network generated around personal photographic practices. Members can form 'groups': self-organised communities defined by shared interests in places, photographic genres, or the appraisal of photographs. These groups are public spaces for both visual and textual conversations - complex social negotiations involving personal expression and collective identity. For one group, the common interest is the Sydney Opera House, and their shared visual and textual expressions - representations of this building. This paper argues that such socio-visual practices themselves constitute an intangible heritage. By drawing on the work of scholars Jose Van Dijck and Nancy Van House, Dawson Munjeri and Michael Warner, the paper proposes that this enactment of intangible heritage is implicated in the broader cultural value of the Sydney Opera House.	en_US
dc.publisher	Routledge	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	International Journal of Heritage Studies	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	https://doi.org/10.1080/13527251003775695	en_us
dc.rights	This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in International Journal of Heritage Studies, 2010, 16 (4-5), pp. 352 - 368. Copyright Routledge, available online at: https://doi.org/10.1080/13527251003775695.	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Sport, Leisure & Tourism	en_US
dc.title	Photosharing on Flickr:intangible heritage and emergent politics	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
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utslib.for	16 Studies in Human Society	en_US
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Abstract:

This paper argues that Flickr, a popular 'photosharing' website, is facilitating new public engagements with world heritage sites like the Sydney Opera House. Australian heritage institutions (namely libraries and museums) have recently begun to employ Flickr as a site through which to engage communities with their photographic archives and collections. Yet Flickr is more than an 'online photo album': it is a social and cultural network generated around personal photographic practices. Members can form 'groups': self-organised communities defined by shared interests in places, photographic genres, or the appraisal of photographs. These groups are public spaces for both visual and textual conversations - complex social negotiations involving personal expression and collective identity. For one group, the common interest is the Sydney Opera House, and their shared visual and textual expressions - representations of this building. This paper argues that such socio-visual practices themselves constitute an intangible heritage. By drawing on the work of scholars Jose Van Dijck and Nancy Van House, Dawson Munjeri and Michael Warner, the paper proposes that this enactment of intangible heritage is implicated in the broader cultural value of the Sydney Opera House.

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