Since the potential of digital technologies to document, preserve, and disseminate traditional knowledge and practices has been widely acknowledged, the digitization of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) has gained more and more attention in the field of heritage protection. However, many digitization projects that aim to preserve ICH primarily focus on documenting content. This makes it hard for the audience to fully comprehend the cultural background and the stories associated. There is a gap between the original cultural context and the ways heritage is presented in digital formats. Immersive experiences have been explored in ICH contexts as a way to enhance engagement, emotional connection, and community-based storytelling. These approaches seek to recover sensory and spatial elements that are often lost in traditional digitization, helping to convey the contextual integrity of ICH. Yet, it is still ambiguous in past research without much attention to present a clear framework that emphasizes immersive experience to handle the contextual integrity in ICH. The purpose of this study is to formulate a conceptual framework that effectively maps the range of immersive experiences possible in the digitization of intangible cultural heritage, balancing cultural authenticity with technological innovation. The convergence of both ideas, contextual integrity matters in ICH and the digitalization will be presented in the following research by suggesting possible digital technology applied to 農村歌舞伎 ("Shodoshima Rural Kabuki").

Authors:
Jingyi Cheng, Waseda University, Japan
Frank Li, Sophia University, Japan
James Jack, Waseda University, Japan

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Posted by James Alexander Gordon

Last updated: 2023-02-23 23:45:00

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