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Curating Heritage In The Digital Age: An Exploration Of How America’S National Heritage Areas Are Using Technology To Share Their Stories, Desiree Demski-Hamelin
Curating Heritage In The Digital Age: An Exploration Of How America’S National Heritage Areas Are Using Technology To Share Their Stories, Desiree Demski-Hamelin
School of Public Policy Capstones
Research Question
This capstone project answers the following two primary research questions: 1) how are America’s National Heritage Areas (NHAs) using technology to share their stories, and 2) what types of information are NHAs using technology to share? Additional secondary research questions are outlined in the Methodology section.
Data Source
Primary data was collected from the websites and social media accounts of each of the forty-eight active NHAs in the United States as of April 2018.
Methodology
Systematic observational content analysis of the websites and social media accounts was conducted by the author. Two rating schemes were developed to assess …