tag:peatix.com,2011:1 2021-11-15T08:08:21+08:00 Peatix Post-Museum tag:peatix.com,2016:event-200218 2016-09-29T19:30:00SGT 2016-09-29T19:30:00SGT

Collective memory projects have recently become a popular way for many governments and cities around the world to engage with their citizenry. Through the use of web platforms and crowdsourcing methods, the collection and aggregation of "digital memories" can serve diverse larger agendas such as preserving a sense of heritage to galvanizing collective action. In a similar fashion, the Singapore Memory Project (SMP) embarked on a massive nationwide effort to collect at least 5 million digital contributions in the form of photos, videos and narratives, by 2015. This presentation examines and evaluates this effort at crowdsourcing collective memories through analyses of server logs from the Singapore Memory Project (SMP) and through interviews with volunteers, contributors and administrators who were active in the effort of "memory collection". This evaluation prompts the following broader questions about efforts to crowdsource collective digital memories; - what does it mean to contribute digital memories to an online portal?- what motivates the contributors and volunteers around such efforts?- what are some of the criterion for such successful collective memory projects?The findings from this project enable us to better understand how the dynamics of designing participatory web platforms interact with broader trends of civic engagement, participation and citizenry.About the SpeakerJude Yew is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communications and New Media, National University of Singapore. He joined CNM in 2012 after finishing a Ph.D. and Postodoc at the University of Michigan. His research is focused on studying and designing social computing systems that encourage prosocial behaviour. Specifically, he is interested in understanding, modeling, predicting, and designing for prosocial human behavior within sociotechnical systems. He has studied and designed environments for large scale scientific collaboration, the use of social tagging in learning, and the sharing and reuse of user-generated content in online communities. Additionally, he has received funding from the the Keio-NUS CUTE Center, NSF and the Rackham Graduate School for this work.[Image from Mirum Indonesia][Part of Survey: Space, Sharing, Haunting, curated by Post-Museum]