Archaeology and global information systems
In this paper I wish to reinforce the view that there is a potential in the use of the Internet by archaeology for an important change in the organisation and institutionalisation of archaeological knowledge. As many have argued, this change involves a shift from hierarchy to networks and flows....
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of York
1999-03-01
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| Series: | Internet Archaeology |
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| Online Access: | http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue6/hodder_index.html |
| Summary: | In this paper I wish to reinforce the view that there is a potential in the use of the Internet by archaeology for an important change in the organisation and institutionalisation of archaeological knowledge. As many have argued, this change involves a shift from hierarchy to networks and flows.
But there are dangers that the Internet will simply translate old forms of elite knowledge into new forms, increasingly excluding the un-networked. Care needs to be taken to provide different modes of access for different groups and to find ways round the exclusive tendencies associated with the dispersal of any new technology.
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| ISSN: | 1363-5387 |