Participatory exploration of digitalizing cultural content: getting married. are we ready?

Authors

  • Kasper Rodil
  • Heike Winschiers-Theophilus
  • Gereon Koch Kapuire
  • Colin Stanley
  • Shilumbe Chivuno-Kuria

Abstract

This paper describes a joint investigation of a Herero wedding ceremony as a sample of cultural content to be digitalized. We have through participatory exploration scrutinized embodied media bias and representation with Herero elders in Namibia. One finding is that this method has enabled the elders to be active agents in the digital portrayal of their culture.

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Published

2012-09-01

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Section

SESSION: Short Papers, Industry Cases, Workshop Descriptions, Doctoral Consortium papers, and Keynote abstracts