Ghost Town Living: Presenting the Past on YouTube

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dc.contributor.advisorThomas Malaby
dc.contributor.committeememberBettina Arnold
dc.contributor.committeememberAaron Atencio
dc.creatorRay, Alannah
dc.date.accessioned2024-08-20T16:16:06Z
dc.date.available2024-08-20T16:16:06Z
dc.date.issued2023-12-01
dc.description.abstract<p>Cerro Gordo is a privately-owned historic mining town in California, and the YouTube channel Ghost Town Living, with over 1.6 million followers, documents the current owner's goal of preserving and restoring the town for visitation. This thesis explores how Cerro Gordo and Ghost Town Living can be understood together through the lenses of museology, digital anthropology, and archaeology. Based on a site visit, analysis of digital media, and interviews with staff and people connected to the site, I explore the intersection between heritage sites and social media, and more widely, changing perceptions of American heritage, including who has the right to shape those perceptions and who may lay claim to them.</p>
dc.identifier.urihttp://digital.library.wisc.edu/1793/80568
dc.subjectAmerican Heritage
dc.subjectCerro Gordo
dc.subjectGhost Town
dc.subjectMining Town
dc.subjectMuseology
dc.subjectYouTube
dc.titleGhost Town Living: Presenting the Past on YouTube
dc.typethesis
thesis.degree.disciplineAnthropology
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Science

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