02006nas a2200229   4500000000100000000000100001008004100002653001100043653004000054653002400094653003600118653001700154653002300171653002100194100002100215245006900236856015000305300001200455490000700467520128200474022002001756                                       d10aFlickr10aInformation technology (THE\_13793)10aintangible heritage10aMass communication (THE\_65380)10aPhotosharing10aSydney Opera House10aVisual discourse1 aCristina Freeman00aPhotosharing on Flickr: intangible heritage and emergent publics  uhttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-77953306624&doi=10.1080%2f13527251003775695&partnerID=40&md5=fc6618e2b281e9a4305c873084cb6446  a352-3680 v163 aThis paper argues that Flickr, a popular  photosharing  website, is facilitating new public engagements with world heritage sites like the Sydney Opera House. Australian heritage institutions (namely libraries and museums) have recently begun to employ Flickr as a site through which to engage communities with their photographic archives and collections. Yet Flickr is more than an  online photo album : it is a social and cultural network generated around personal photographic practices. Members can form  groups : self-organised communities defined by shared interests in places, photographic genres, or the appraisal of photographs. These groups are public spaces for both visual and textual conversations - complex social negotiations involving personal expression and collective identity. For one group, the common interest is the Sydney Opera House, and their shared visual and textual expressions - representations of this building. This paper argues that such socio-visual practices themselves constitute an intangible heritage. By drawing on the work of scholars Jose Van Dijck and Nancy Van House, Dawson Munjeri and Michael Warner, the paper proposes that this enactment of intangible heritage is implicated in the broader cultural value of the Sydney Opera House.  a13527258 (ISSN)