BOOM BABY!": engaging the public through social media in response to "American Digger
Author(s): Tonia Deetz Rock; Misti Furr; Kurt Thomas Hunt; Katie Jacobson; Kristina Wyckoff
Year: 2013
Summary
In this paper we present our public outreach efforts in response to the American "reality" television series "American Digger," which portrays looting of archaeological resources as a desirable and profitable enterprise at the expense of archaeological context and communal knowledge of our past. Our efforts included blog posts, the creation and dissemination of a Change.org petition, and the facilitation of involvement and open dialogue through the creation and ongoing administration of a Facebook page. We discuss our goals for this outreach, how we attempted to meet those goals, where we feel we were successful and lessons we have learned from this experience that could improve future outreach efforts.
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BOOM BABY!": engaging the public through social media in response to "American Digger. Tonia Deetz Rock, Misti Furr, Kurt Thomas Hunt, Katie Jacobson, Kristina Wyckoff. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Leicester, England, U.K. 2013 ( tDAR id: 428330)
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Keywords
General
Looting
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Public Archaeology
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Social Media
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 702