Grassroots heritage in the crisis context
Sophia B. Liu · 2010
Social media technologies are rapidly changing the way people create, share, and experience memories especially around crises. When collective memory is generated on a societal scale and shared across generations over time, this practice assumes social and cultural significance and becomes a heritage matter. Emerging uses of social media are generating new kinds of heritage practices from the bottom-up, what I call "grassroots heritage." This interdisciplinary design study works at the intersection of social media and cultural heritage in the crisis context using a variant method called "social media probes." I present a grassroots heritage framework with design ideas for facilitating "socially-distributed curation" to guide future HCI research in the heritage domain.