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Canon, Value, and Cultural Heritage: New Processes of Assigning Value in the Postdigital Realm

Year: 2018

Type: article

Abstract: The range of modes through which the new conditions of the postdigital society is leading to a redefinition of the processes of assigning value, and the values themselves, which have hitherto prevailed in the comprehension of cultural heritage, are diverse and broad. Within this framework of critical inquiry, this paper discusses the mechanisms of canon-formation in the context of the web as the new laboratory of cultural production. It is argued that the main dynamics observed can be elucidated under the form of a triad: hypercanonization, socialdecanonization, and transcanonization. These three processes operate simultaneously interlaced and unfold in dialectical tension between the rise of the new (practices, actors, values, ideas), and the maintenance of the old (those structures that already exist). This paper delves into the paths through which such interlace dynamics and tension might reshape the principles by which canonicity develops, as well as poses open questions about the challenges facing us, which should be discussed in further studies and approaches to the problem.

Source: Multimodal Technologies and Interaction

DOI: 10.3390/mti2020025

Author: Nuria Rodríguez-Ortega

Institution: Universidad de Málaga

Language: English

Topic: Cultural Insights and Digital Impacts

Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $1,930

Funders: Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, Ministerio de Asuntos Económicos y Transformación Digital, Gobierno de España, Junta de Andalucía