Agenda

Marta Severo (Université Paris Nanterre)
"Cultural Heritage, Participation and Platforms: Theoretical and Methodological Challenges"

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Marta Severo is a full professor in Information and Communication Sciences at the University of Paris Nanterre and a junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France. She is a member and deputy director of the Dicen-IDF laboratory. Participatory and contributory online practices, representations of places through web data, social media analysis and information visualization are among the research themes she is developing. It has obtained several funding (in particular the ANR COLLABORA project on cultural participatory platforms). In 2019, she joined the scientific board of Open Edition.

Abstract:
In the last few years, participatory platforms have become particularly popular in the field of cultural heritage. Research generally identifies two types of platforms. On the one hand, institutional platforms, that usually take the form of crowdsourcing platforms, are created by libraries, archives, museums, etc. in order to engage the public in specific tasks related to their collections such as transcription or annotation of documents. On the other hand, informal groups of amateurs can use the web (social media or other Web 2.0 solutions) to create their own collections of cultural objects. Such participatory collections constitute interesting combinations of cultural heritage and born-digital heritage. This communication will focus on the theoretical and methodological challenges raised by the study of this phenomenon. First, it will propose a theoretical perspective to interpreting this phenomenon of participatory platforms through the history of the amateur. Second, it will present a methodological framework for analysing participatory platforms.

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