Social Ecology of Museums in the Digital Domain

Abstract

The museum is universally considered as an institution in the service of society. Museums are increasingly being developed in a postcolonial environment as civic spaces for critical community engagement, to safeguard intangible heritage and cultural diversity as the common heritage of humanity. However, the application of digital technologies has largely remained in the domain of tangible heritage and mostly monocultural contexts. In fact, the accelerated pace of digital globalization and the inadequate social contextu-alization of technologies has become a major threat to cultural diversity of the world.