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Des réfugiés passeurs de cultures témoignent sur YouTube
Refugees as Cultural Brokers on YouTube

Author(s): Cécilia Brassier-Rodrigues
Subject(s): Museology & Heritage Studies, Media studies, Social Theory, Sociology of Culture, Migration Studies
Published by: ESSACHESS
Keywords: Refugees; intangible cultural heritage; mediation; digital networks; integration;

Summary/Abstract: In this article, we examine how the audiovisual productions of the Partage de Cultures project complement and enrich the intangible cultural heritage of a country by renewing the process of construction and transmission of heritage knowledge. Based on the analysis of a corpus composed of 20 semi-structured interviews and observation notes, we show that the testimony of refugees on YouTube brings out a form of peer-to-peer mediation, audiovisual and digital, capable of enriching the intangible cultural heritage. We thus make visible a new form of engagement in heritage activity, centered on the participation of ordinary people. In doing so, the device created also contributes to the integration of refugees in society.

  • Issue Year: 15/2022
  • Issue No: 29 (1)
  • Page Range: 83-101
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: French