Session II - Poetics and Politics of Digitisation: Constructing Collections and Social Impact

Session II - Poetics and Politics of Digitisation: Constructing Collections and Social Impact

11 May 2021, 17.00-18.30 CEST

Moderator: Robin Boast, Professor, University of Amsterdam

Speakers:

- Rossitza Atanassova, Digital Curator, British Library, Contextualising digital cultural heritage
- Seamus Ross, Professor in the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto, Reinforcing traditional cultural attitudes and ways of knowing in memory institutions through digital privileging
- Haidy Geismar, Professor of Anthropology, University College London, Is social media the next ethnographic collection?
- Gerben Zaagsma, Assistant Professor, Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) at the University of Luxembourg, Digital cultural heritage and the politics of digitisation