Geopolitics of Digital Heritage

Geopolitics of Digital Heritage analyzes and discusses the political implications of the largest digital heritage aggregators across different scales of governance from the city-state governed Singapore Memory Project to a national aggregator like Australia''s Trove to supranational digital heritage platforms such as Europeana to the global heritage aggregator Google Arts & Culture. These four dedicated case studies provide focused exploratory sites for critical investigation of digital heritage aggregators from the perspective of their geopolitical motivations and interests the economic and cultural agendas of involved stakeholders as well as their foreign policy strategies and objectives. The Element employs an interdisciplinary approach and combines critical heritage studies with the study of digital politics and communications. Drawing from empirical case study analysis it investigates how political imperatives manifest in the development of digital heritage platforms to serve different actors in a highly saturated global information space ranging from national governments to transnational corporations.