Rees, AJ orcid.org/0000-0001-7155-5335 (2021) Collecting Online Memetic Cultures: how tho. Museum and Society, 19 (2). pp. 199-219. ISSN 1479-8360
Abstract
Using insights gained from reflexive dyadic interviews undertaken as part of ongoing action research, this article positions memes as new and emerging objects of digital cultural heritage and begins to work through the implications of collecting them on museum acquisition practices. The article explores how Stockholm County Museum has collected memes as part of their digital photography collecting activities and draws out the challenges that a meme’s materiality and remix qualities present to provenance, Copyright and ownership. The article concludes that acquisition standards should be remixed to be more appropriate for the cultural contexts that memes sit within and offers some preliminary suggestions on the how tho of collecting. A key feature of those suggestions is my proposal that being more open to alternative approaches to ownership may be more appropriate for these new and emerging object types.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Authors/Creators: | |
Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2021, Arran John Rees. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. |
Keywords: | Memes, Remix, digital collecting, digital heritage, social media, acquisition, collections management |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 31 Jan 2022 10:47 |
Last Modified: | 31 Jan 2022 10:47 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | University of Leicester Open Journals |
Identification Number: | 10.29311/mas.v19i2.3445 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:182990 |