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Social Media Data for the Conservation of Historic Urban Landscapes: Prospects and Challenges

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This study attempts to frame the contribution of social media data (SMD) to the conservation and management of historic urban landscapes with a focus on the dynamics of heritage co-production. It particularly addresses bottom-up digitally mediated heritage practices aside from institutional structures. To this end, it addresses two key issues: the co-construction of meanings of everyday landscape on social media and the heritage appropriation by online communities. The first employs SMD to study human-environment interactions and provides insights on individuals’ encounters with the historic urban landscape. The second explores the contribution of online narratives to heritage conservation. The discussion focuses on the opportunities and challenges in analyzing big data on social media and the implications of knowledge gained for the scope of what is defined as heritage at the intersection of the heritage by appropriation and the authorized heritage discourse (AHD) as well as for sustainable heritage conservation and management.

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Ginzarly, M. (2021). Social Media Data for the Conservation of Historic Urban Landscapes: Prospects and Challenges. In: Rauterberg, M. (eds) Culture and Computing. Design Thinking and Cultural Computing. HCII 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12795. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77431-8_13

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