Heritage and Nationalism

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List of figures ix List of tables xiii Acknowledgements xvii Author's note xix 1 Introduction 1 2 Using big data 13 3 Nationalism, populism and the past 30 4 Italian populism and the 2018 General Election 48 5 The Brexit referendum 78 6 The 'great wall' of Trump 108 7 Experts, authority and social fabrics 139 8 Conclusion: a new perspective 169 References 183 Index 204 LiST Of figurES ix List of figuresLiST Of TABLES xv I wholeheartedly thank Richard Hingley (Durham University), PI of the project, for his inspirational collaboration and for providing me with the necessary space and time to pursue the research avenues that I felt would be most promising. Thank you to Marta Krzyzanska, now finalising her PhD at the University of Cambridge, who has worked closely with me as a Research Assistant for the past four years. I am grateful to her for her technical support and for participating in a wide range of events, articles and conversations connected to the topic of the book. I am indebted to Kate Sharpe and Thomas Yarrow (Durham University), respectively Postdoctoral Researcher and Co-Investigator, for sharing provisional findings from the ethnography completed at Iron Age and Roman heritage places in England, Scotland and Wales. I am also very grateful to my friend Christina Unwin for the creativity and kindness with which she prepared the illustrations for this monograph and copy-edited draft chapters.The latter were also improved by the generous and insightful comments of: Manuel Fernández-

An Ontology of Semiotic Activity and Epistemic Figuration of Heritage, Memory and Identity Practices on Social Network Sites

“…Others show how HMI practices emerge in diverse contexts and institutional-community negotiations surrounding digital heritage (Cameron & Kenderdine, 2007;Drotner & Schrøder, 2013;Giaccardi, 2012;Kalay et al, 2007;Parry, 2010). More recently, Chiara Bonacchi leveraged the power of big data to demonstrate the relevance of HMI-related SNS practices in contexts such as Brexit, Donald Trump's demonization of immigrants, and the rise of populism and nationalism in Italy (Bonacchi, 2022). At the intersection between heritage and digital social media communication, research on HMI on SNS practices addresses issues as diverse as Holocaust commemoration (Manca, 2021;Wight, 2020), the ''memory wars'' of Eastern and Central Europe (Rutten et al, 2013), heritage preservation (Sedlacik, 2015), community engagement with local history (Hood & Reid, 2018), archeological communication (Colley, 2014) between professionals (Richardson, 2015) and with mateur communities (Kelpsiene, 2019), institutional museum communication (Kidd, 2014), education (Charitonos et al, 2012), and marketing (Chung et al, 2014).…”