Human values in curating a human rights media archive
Cultural institutions, such as museums, often curate politically and ethically sensitive materials. Increasingly, Internet-enabled, digital technology intersects with these curatorial practices offering new opportunities for public and scholarly engagement. We report on a case study of human rights...
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| author | Durrant, Abigail Kirk, Dave Reeves, Stuart |
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| description | Cultural institutions, such as museums, often curate politically and ethically sensitive materials. Increasingly, Internet-enabled, digital technology intersects with these curatorial practices offering new opportunities for public and scholarly engagement. We report on a case study of human rights media archiving at a genocide memorial centre in Rwanda, motivated by interests in ICT support to memorialisation practices. Through an analysis of our discussions with staff about their work, we report on how accounts of the Rwandan Genocide are being captured and curated to support the centre's humanitarian agenda and associated values. We identify transferable curatorial concerns for human rights media communication amongst scholarly networks and public audiences worldwide, elucidating interaction design challenges for supportive ICT and contributing to HCI discourses on value sensitive design and cultural engagement with sensitive materials. |
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| spelling | nottingham-288692020-05-04T16:46:20Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/28869/ Human values in curating a human rights media archive Durrant, Abigail Kirk, Dave Reeves, Stuart Cultural institutions, such as museums, often curate politically and ethically sensitive materials. Increasingly, Internet-enabled, digital technology intersects with these curatorial practices offering new opportunities for public and scholarly engagement. We report on a case study of human rights media archiving at a genocide memorial centre in Rwanda, motivated by interests in ICT support to memorialisation practices. Through an analysis of our discussions with staff about their work, we report on how accounts of the Rwandan Genocide are being captured and curated to support the centre's humanitarian agenda and associated values. We identify transferable curatorial concerns for human rights media communication amongst scholarly networks and public audiences worldwide, elucidating interaction design challenges for supportive ICT and contributing to HCI discourses on value sensitive design and cultural engagement with sensitive materials. ACM 2014-04-26 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed Durrant, Abigail, Kirk, Dave and Reeves, Stuart (2014) Human values in curating a human rights media archive. In: CHI 2014: SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 27 April - 1 May 2014, Toronto, Canada. Human Rights Media; Rwanda; Genocide; Memorial; Curation; Value Sensitive Design http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2557196 |
| spellingShingle | Human Rights Media; Rwanda; Genocide; Memorial; Curation; Value Sensitive Design Durrant, Abigail Kirk, Dave Reeves, Stuart Human values in curating a human rights media archive |
| title | Human values in curating a human rights media archive |
| title_full | Human values in curating a human rights media archive |
| title_fullStr | Human values in curating a human rights media archive |
| title_full_unstemmed | Human values in curating a human rights media archive |
| title_short | Human values in curating a human rights media archive |
| title_sort | human values in curating a human rights media archive |
| topic | Human Rights Media; Rwanda; Genocide; Memorial; Curation; Value Sensitive Design |
| url | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/28869/ https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/28869/ |