The project will explore the impact of digital heritage on contemporary engagements with the past. Focusing on oral history, photography and multimedia museums as some of the most common media used to digitalise cultural heritage the project endeavours to challenge widespread claims about the universality and democratising abilities of digital heritage.

The project will explore the impact of digital heritage on contemporary engagements with the past. While acknowledging the role digital heritage plays in shaping and distributing cultural heritage, the project’s point of departure is that digital heritage cannot be considered in separation from historical, cultural and national contexts. The project has three main aims: 1) to explore how national politics affect digital definitions of cultural heritage, 2) to investigate who creates and engages with digital heritage, and how, and 3) to study how the scope and value of cultural heritage are being negotiated and reformulated in a digital context.