Muziejus in situ ir tinklaveikos visuomenė

LTŠio straipsnio objektas yra (ne)skaitmeninio (ir ne(su)skaitmeninto) paveldo komunikacija tikrame (in situ) muziejuje. Straipsnio tikslas – paveldo komunikacijos požiūriu aptarti pastaraisiais dešimtmečiais įvykusius visuomenės pasikeitimus (įskaitant pasikeitusią informacinę elgseną) ir pristatyti paveldo komunikacijos realiame (in situ) muziejuje galimybes. [Iš straipsnio, p. 9]

ENHeritage interpretation and communication are one of the most important elements of “life cycle” of heritage. After all, what is the point to keep something from the past, if it is not used in modern culture? We can say that only interpretation and communication give meaning to the other “life cycle” phases of the heritage – for the selection, accumulation and preservation of the heritage. Digital technologies which spread at the end of 20th century – the beginning of the 21st century brought two important changes. On the one hand, digital technologies made some previously known reality analogue instruments, which were expensive and which application required exceptional skills, into massive and affordable to everyone. However, the actual qualitative change induced by digital technologies is related to the so-called new media provided opportunities and born digital (born digital) document creation. To these we could assign threedimensional scanning, GIS data drives, virtual reality tools, informational systems, and social networks. Informational and Communicational Technologies (ICT), which were developed at the end of the 20th century, created new opportunities in many fields of application.But more importantly – the rapid spread of ICT caused major changes in the evolution of society. Analysing the impact of the digital technologies on heritage interpretation and communication, we should pay attention to a slightly different, less technologized chain of reasons: ICT development → changed society because of ICT impact (socalled network society) → heritage interpretation and communication for networking society. In this context, ICT are new and good means to implement heritage communication, but the heritage interpretation itself and communication can occur equivalently in the real world and in the virtual space, and the success of this communication depends not as much on the use or non-use of ICT, but more on the specific features of the changed world and the awareness of informational behaviour of modern (networking) people. This means that heritage interpretations executed in both the virtual and the real world as well as heritage communication products which are being created and will be used in modern culture, not according to how much ICT will be applied in them, but according to what extent they correspond to the world-view and the needs of changed society. [From the publication]