When "The Unknown” Are Us

Online archiving of cultural heritage examines in enacting users' online spaces where they create meaning. In this paper we report from Digitaltfortalt.no, a national portal for digital stories, launched in Norway 2009. One of the main findings was that while Digitaltfortalt.no supports producing and publishing of digital stories, very little social networking between different users was observed. Digital stories seemed to be inscribed with meaning by activities of enrolling different media places and locations. We use Actor Network and the notion inscription to analyze these archiving enrolment activities in hybrid online networks.

What do Napster (and its successors like KaZaA and Gnutella), collaborative news networks like Slashdot and

“Documentality. Or Why Nothing Social Exists Beyond the Text”, in C. Kanzian, E. Runggaldier (eds.), Cultures. Conflict-Analysis Dialogue, Proceedings of the 29th International Ludwig Wittgenstein-Symposium in Kirchberg, Austria, Publications of the Austrian Wittgenstein Society 3, 2007: 385-401

Roots Reloaded Culture, Identity and Social Development in the Digital Age, 2016

This edited volume is designed to explore different perspectives of culture, identity, and social development using the impact of the digital age as a common thread, aiming at interdisciplinary audiences. Cases of communities and individuals using new technology as a tool to preserve and explore their cultural heritage alongside new media as a source for social orientation ranging from language acquisition to health-related issues will be covered. Therefore, aspects such as Art and Cultural Studies, Media and Communication, Behavioral Science, Psychology, Philosophy, and innovative approaches used by creative individuals are included. From the Aboriginal tribes of Australia to the Maoris of New Zealand, to the mystical teachings of Sufi brotherhoods, the significance of the oral and written traditions and their current relation to online activities shall be discussed in the opening article. The book continues with a closer look at obesity awareness support groups and their impact on social media, Facebook usage in a language learning context, smartphone addiction and internet dependency, as well as online media reporting of controversial ethical issues. Digital progress has already left its dominating mark as the world entered the 21st century. Without a doubt, as technology continues its ascent, society will be faced with new and altering values in an effort to catch up with this extraordinary Digitization, adapt satisfactorily in order to utilize these strong developments in everyday life

THE DIGITAL GENERATION

First Monday, 1996

Journal of Comparative Research in Anthropology and Sociology, 2010

In this article some of the main methodological issues that arise in doing research using the Internet are presented. We firstly distinguish two main methodological areas: sociology with Internet and sociology on Internet. This work is mainly devoted to the sociology on Internet. We suggest that research on Internet has features which are highly continuative with documentary analysis, a type of enquiry which is already part of the tool box of social researchers. Some on line documents in particular may rightfully be considered as personal documents in traditional sense: e.g. blogs, e-mails, personal sites, forums, albums on line. A possible matching between traditional personal documents and web-mediated personal documents is proposed. It is certainly true that personal documents on line reveal specific features. In particular, since they are published on the web, “personal” documents are permeated with a “public” dimension which makes their significance distinctive. Specific strata...

The paper aims to present the first of its kind—virtual museum of the Bulgarian migrants in North America (www.immigrant.bg) and to discuss the goals and perspectives of the online museum and its role as a tool in the contemporary global conversation. The virtual museum entitled “The Immigrant’s Suitcase” is based on the idea of the suitcase as a metaphor for everything that an individual brings during migration including belongings, cultural identity, and memories. It is based on an ongoing historical- anthropological study that combines research methods from the anthropology of migration and visual anthropology. This text summarizes the collected materials for the VM project and the exhibited content on the website. Finally, the paper examines how the first virtual museum of Bulgarian immigration responds to the new social necessity for advanced intercultural connections in contemporary global society, where individuals and groups relocate more intensively, and when “migration” more often becomes “mobility.” To cite: Ivanova, D. “The Virtual Museum of the Bulgarians in North America: Shared Heritage and Intercultural Communications.” In: Fwd: Museums. Chicago: StepSister Press, pp. 110-123, 2016.

Indigeneity and the Archive: mediating the public, the private and the communal

Flagship Deliverable D-C.1.1, 2008

The potential impact of the results This document contains definitions that are intended to aid users or designers of Integrated Safety and Emergency Systems (ISEMS) in specifying and comparing such systems. The document is the first and currently only systematic collection of requirements for ship board emergency management equipment. The document does not specify any standardized and /or concrete type of ISEMS. Rather, it provides a general framework from where incident types, management processes, possible functions and organizational aspects can be selected. Neither does the document specify any particular architecture for an ISEMS.