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

Heritage co-production; Historic urban landscape; Social media; Bottom up; Co-production; Heritage conservation; Institutional structure; Key Issues; Social media datum; Urban landscape; Theoretical Computer Science; Computer Science (all)

Abstract :

[en] 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.

Disciplines :

Arts & humanities: Multidisciplinary, general & others

Author, co-author :

Ginzarly, Manal ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Urban and Environmental Engineering ; Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon

Language :

English

Title :

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

Publication date :

2021

Event name :

Culture and Computing. Design Thinking and Cultural Computing

Event date :

24-07-2021 => 29-07-2021

By request :

Yes

Audience :

International

Main work title :

Culture and Computing. Design Thinking and Cultural Computing - 9th International Conference HCII 2021

Editor :

Rauterberg, Matthias

Publisher :

Springer Nature Switzerland

ISBN/EAN :

978-3-03-077430-1

Pages :

209–223

Peer review/Selection committee :

Peer reviewed

Additional URL :

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-3-030-77431-8_13

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since 10 December 2025

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