Module 1: The Politics and Publics of Digital Cultural Heritage

Here’s a summary of all the tasks and activities you should have added to your portfolio as you worked through this module:

X-Ray Goggles: Save a screenshot of your remixed page and the url to your ‘published’ version in your Portfolio.
Seeing differently with QueryPic: In your portfolio save the url to your QueryPic. In a few sentences describe the searches you used and results you obtained. Did you come across anything surprising?
Digital possibilities and problems: Pick one of the projects mentioned by me or Stephen and write a brief (200 word minimum) review. What interests you about the project? What does it allow us to do or see that we couldn’t before?
The publics of digital heritage: I want you to choose one crowdsourcing project and invest some time in it – a minimum of an hour. Reflecting on the issues, questions and readings above, I want you to write a short 500 word (not including Harvard-style references if required) essay on the experience. What made you interested? What did you enjoy? What did you find frustrating? What do you now think about questions of motivation, meaning, and authority?
The politics of digital heritage: How might issues of ethics, empowerment, and agency arise in our own class project? I’d like you to write a minimum of 200 words on how we might address these issues as we develop our project. What do we need to be careful of, and why?