Being Seen, Being Heard: Ownership of Archaeology and Digital Heritage

Seeing without being seen

Over the past decade, researchers have reported several impressive discoveries aimed at controlling the flow of light in ways that defy common intuition. Andrea Alù and Nader Engheta, at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Pennsylvania, in a paper in Physical Review Letters now propose a way of sensing with light through a nearly invisible detector [1]. This follows previous...

Cultural Heritage Rights: From Ownership and Descent to Justice and Well-being

The protection of cultural heritage sites is normally evaluated in terms of universal and scholarly significance criteria, although increasingly the contributions of sites and monuments to the economic and social well-being of communities have been recognized. Human rights discourse, despite its many problems and limitations, offers a possible mechanism for evaluating heritage in terms of socia...

Seen and not heard? Text messaging and digital sociality

translations Vu et pas entendu? La télémessagerie et la socialitédigitale Les téléphones cellulaires ont suscité, notammentchez les jeunes, diverses conceptions dystopiennes.On soutient entres autres que ces appareils con-tribuent au non-respect des règles orthographiqueset grammaticales, réduisent leur capacité de seconcentrer sur leurs devoirs scolaires, encouragent<lb...

Jonathan Wateridge: Being Seen, in Between

Seen and Heard in Mexico

An earlier version of portions of chapter 6 appeared in " Los Exploradores, la Cruz Roja de la Juventud, y la expresión infantil de nacionalismo, México, 1920– 1940, " in Nuevas miradas a la historia de la infancia en América Latina: Entre prác-ticas y representaciones, ed.