Heritage and Social Media Understanding heritage in a participatory culture

"Heritage and Social Media is an important book, which advances the digital heritage literature beyond the methodological discussions of how to archive the past-a theme that has tended to dominate this genre... Debate and research in both museum and heritage studies are moving past essentialist ideas that heritage can be equated simply to objects and sites...This book belongs within the context of this developing critical debate... [and] can cast new analytical light on the nature, practices, and consequences of heritagemaking." - Laurajane Smith, Australian National University

"With Heritage and Social Media: Understanding Heritage in a Participatory Culture Elisa Giaccardi has produced an edited volume that contributes to the existing body of studies concerned with museum and heritage sites...The strength of this book is...the excellent... case studies the various authors draw on in their analysis of the impact of social media on heritage production and management...the issues discussed in this book are of relevance to a range of modern institutions and organisation that see themselves confronted with stakeholders whose social media activities challenge positions of authority and control that defined prior times." - Dirk vom Lehn, King's College London