Digital Emancipation and Cultural Heritage: Technology for Social Memory and History

By:
Prof. Gilson Schwartz,
Prof. Myriam Bahia Lopes
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Research and development projects on emancipation at local levels, however, have challenged this inherited pattern of exclusion by designing more democratic and critical uses of information and communication technologies. Social history and grassroots economic models are also expected to foster local communities in their struggle for autonomy and self-determination while dissolving power-knowledge networks established by State and private sector combinations of ideological and economic manipulation.

The discussion focuses on important local communities such as Ouro Preto ((UNESCO World Heritage Center), Praia da Pipa (Tourist and Environmental Enclave) and São Paulo (City of Knowledge). Each of these cases purports different opportunities for the rescue of human and social values while also offering opportunities for capital accumulation and environmental destruction. The role and control of new digital media have been tested as tools for the creation of libertarian narratives. Preservation or memory is subject to a critical perspective that may lead to the definition of digital emancipation as a new pattern of civic intelligence and community involvement in the promotion of a national cultural heritage is required. This session will explore results and proposals that aim at digital emancipation through research and development of local assets and cultural heritage.


Keywords: Cultural Heritage, Information Society, Intangible Values, Social Memory, Digital Emancipation
Stream: Technology in Community
Presentation Type: Virtual Presentation in English
Paper: Digitalization X Emancipation

Prof. Gilson Schwartz

Head of The City of Knowledge, ECA, University of Sao Paulo
São Paulo, BRAZIL

The City of Knowledge became a Research and Action Center for the Economics of Information and Audiovisual Arts at the Dept. of Cinema, Radio and TV, School of Communication and Arts, University of São Paulo, in 2005.

Prof. Myriam Bahia Lopes

Professor, Department of Architecture Critical Analysis and History, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG)
BRAZIL

Myriam Bahia Lopes completed her undergraduate and MA courses at University of Campinas (UNICAMP), in Brazil, and her PhD at University of Paris 7, in France. Her PhD thesis, Inscribed bodies: vaccination and bio-power, London and Rio de Janeiro 1840-1904, was successfully defended in 1997 under Professor Michelle Perrot’s supervision. Her first professional experiences were in Campinas, then in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Vitória, and Ouro Preto. She is now back to Belo Horizonte, her birthplace, where she teaches at the Department of Architecture Critical Analysis and History, in Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG). Coherently to her experiences, along which she has been carrying out an attentive look to diversity, history has become an important method to deal with difference and tolerance in society in various times and places. She coordinated the cultural and research activities at Casa dos Contos Museum, Ouro Preto (2001-2004) and nowadays is the head of the Nucleus of Science and Technique History (NEHCIT), UFMG. Among her recent publications, there are the book O Rio em Movimento. Quadors médicos e(m) história, 1890-1920, Rio de Janeiro FIOCRUZ (Rio de Janeiro in movement. Medical pictures and/in history, 1890-1920, Rio de Janeiro, FIOCRUZ, 2001 and the article The Collector in the Web, 2003.

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