• A You Tube video called “Bhopal Disaster – BBC – The Yes Men” containing a clip of the BBC News broadcast of the Yes Men’s settlement fund hoax. Uploaded by razor-foundation.

 

I conducted a final study that systematically investigated the concept of curation and the diverse set of curatorial activities it encompasses. This led to the development of a theoretical model called socially distributed curation that provides in-depth descriptions of how curation encompasses a set of activities (e.g., collecting, categorizing, verifying, synthesizing, exhibiting, guiding, and maintaining) and how social media features facilitate these curatorial activities in distributed ways. What I have discovered are budding examples of living heritage emerging in the social media landscape that can provide inspirations for how we design and use ICT to support heritage matters in new ways.

The Living Heritage of the
1984 Bhopal Disaster
The 1984 Bhopal gas leak is an
example of a disaster that already
has a rich living heritage in the
social media landscape. There are
more than 200 Facebook groups,
pages, and causes; more than 300
Flickr images; more than 1,000
Delicious bookmarks; more than
88,000 blog posts; and more than
600 You Tube videos pertaining to
the Bhopal disaster. There are also
more than 1,000 editors for the
“Bhopal disaster” Wikipedia article.
The heritage of the Bhopal disaster
is thriving as people share memo-
ries of what happened in 1984 and
updates on the impact of the Bhopal
disaster in the present day.