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800) Narrative is a fundamental means through which people live their lives
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781) Communication codes are learnt and culturally defined
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747) Law as a discourse framed by the world that it inhabits and creates
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721) Images do not embody information about their use
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690) The Reflective Practitioner: Choreography As Research In An Intercultural Context
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687) Frayling: into, through and for art and design
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Utterance:
This paper discusses the significance of cultural heritage content in virtual heritage, and outlines some of the issues of communicating this content for public interpretation. This discussion is presented in response to a twofold problem identified in the virtual heritage field: firstly; the proliferation of technical research, which tends to represent only tangible cultural heritage, and overlooks the intangible dimensions of sites or artefacts; and secondly, the broader need to contextualise virtual heritage within social, economic and political structures. Instead, a critical framework is proposed through reconceptualising virtual heritage as cultural constructs, and the framework is informed by three broad characteristics: knowledge can be considered multivocal and fragmented; representations can be dynamic and open-ended; and interpretation process is polysemic. The core of the framework emphasises the importance of content (oral histories, dances, music etc.) in guiding the production of virtual heritage, as opposed to technology being the sole motivator. Further still, the framework discusses how content in virtual heritage needs to be transformed from merely representing quantitative data towards cultural information, and this is suggested through representing meaningful relationships between cultural heritage elements. The departure point of this paper is then discussing this framework in relation to interpretation, in particular issues of visual communication, ideology and interactivity. This paper informs a larger research project examining the capacity for intercultural interpretations of virtual heritage in museums.
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©Mia Thornton (University of Brighton)
Motivation:
Book: Thornton, Mia. 2006 Computer and Archaeology Conference 2006, Fargo, USA: CAA.
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640) Barthes: Death of the Author
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617) Reflexive Modernisation: knowledgeable subjects able to reflect on their social conditions
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587) Spectacle as Show - not an inferior part of tradegy
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580) changing our footing in talk
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579) Ernest Boyers: Priorities of the Professoriate
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576) bystandering as a footing position
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573) Thick Conceptions of Practice: cognitive skills that give rise to contextualised beliefs
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560) topography of action: to rise above or drop below a field of experience
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539) ICT-Based Learning Environments: transmission or active exploration?
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536) discussion about culture anticipates and disseminates culture
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532) Types of Research in the Creative Arts and Design
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527) Bernstein: Horizontal Discourse and Vertical Discourses
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521) Design scholarship as an alternative form of research grounded in practice
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510) Self-Reflexivity: the natural sciences versus the human sciences
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495) A Depiction Of The Process Of Picture Making: Emergence Of A Meta-Subject
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481) Clive Wearing: procedural and declarative memories
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477) Constructivism and Online Education
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459) coalescing in the act of interpretation
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449) Wittgenstein's picture theory of meaning
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448) Differ
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447) Interaction Design: university & applied research centres
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426) Gestell: enframing and converting everything encountered
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413) Empiricism: failing to secure contingency
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406) post-traditional order contesting the hierarchy of legitimacy
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397) Reflexive Modernisation: Beyond Modernism & Postmodernism
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360) the mirror is both a utopia and a heterotopia
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344) Francis Bacon: misconceptions in the discovery of causes
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322) Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
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205) Donald Schön: The Reflective Practitioner Model
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195) archaeology-poem: multiple registers
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203) Julia Kristeva: The Abject
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193) Defamiliarization and Making Strange
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191) suture: revelation of constructed nature
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178) insurrection of subjugated knowledges
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168) Donna Haraway: situated knowledges
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161) Historical Revisionism
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146) every utterance generates a response
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149) freemason: secular architect shaping the world
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150) freemason: utopic representations of an orderly society
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151) freemason: Solomon's Temple - classical order
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154) heteroglossia: multilanguagedness
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131) contingent product of contingently existing forces
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92) authenticity: authority of the object
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80) tends to perfection: nature
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63) information is a commodity and is properly controlled by market forces?
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61) Diachronic and synchronic
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3) Walter Benjamin: das passagen-werk / the arcades project
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38) Michel Foucault: Heterotopia
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40) Kevin Hetherington: Heterotopia & Social Ordering
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44) Henri Bergson: Tendencies and Composites
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45) readerly texts and writerly texts
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48) Deleuzian Memory of Sans Soleil
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