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Participatory Management for Cultural Heritage: Social Media and Chinese Urban Landscape

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Abstract

Community participation plays a core role in sustainable urban development and inclusive cultural heritage management [1, 2]. Despite the broad attention on the World Heritage Property management in China, little research has been done on systematically reviewing the practices of community participation within Chinese cultural heritage, nor defining the role of social media played in it. To fill this research gap, this paper aims to explore how social media can contribute to community engagement and further influence sustainable cultural heritage management by providing a systematic literature review. Based on the evolving definition of community participation from the Historic Urban Landscape approach, this work starts with a review on the conceptualization of community participation. This article continues with a discussion on the role of the community played in participatory management. Following that, the argument is mainly concerning that social media is one of the vital tools to engage a wider range of audiences in conservation practices. To conclude, online urban heritage practices offer a platform for local citizens, especially grassroots, to collaborate with heritage institutions and professionals. Social media practices, such as mapping, may have a wider resonance when they combine broader communication and collaboration methods.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    It refers to the International Conference in Shanghai on ‘Historic Urban Landscape’ on 9-10 December 2014, hosted by the World Heritage Institute of Training and Research for the Asia and the Pacific Region under the auspices of UNESCO, WHITRAP Shanghai.

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    It refers to the ‘Shanghai Agenda’ for the Implementation of UNESCO Recommendation on Historic Urban Landscape (HUL) In China: First edition on 10 December 2014; revised on 10 January 2015.

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    The conference was hosted by Tongji University, organized by World Heritage Institute of Training and Research for the Asia and the Pacific Region under the auspices of UNESCO, WHITRAP Shanghai.

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    31st session of the World Heritage Committee, Christchurch, New-Zealand, 23 June–2 July 2007.

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    39th session of the World Heritage Committee, Bonn, Germany, 28 June–8 July 2015.

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    China's Hukou system is a family registration program that serves as a domestic passport, in which the migrants are gully involved in both local decisions and welfare benefits.

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    World Bank began to assist in cultural heritage conservation in China since 1990s. The investing approach shifted in 2000 from developing tourism to integrate cultural heritage in local economic development and sustainable tourism.

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Liang, X. (2020). Participatory Management for Cultural Heritage: Social Media and Chinese Urban Landscape. In: Stephanidis, C., Antona, M. (eds) HCI International 2020 - Posters. HCII 2020. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1226. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50732-9_40

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