A Study on the Transformation of Co-curation Mechanisms in the Digital Era: Taking Technology as the Driving Force

Abstract

 Profound impacts of digitalization have brought fundamental changes to curation in terms of knowledge production, organizational structure and power dynamics. The one-way discourse dominated by curators and cultural institutions in traditional curation has gradually faded away. The involvement of public participants and the intervention of technological platforms and social networks endow contemporary curatorial practices with prominent digital features, collaborative attributes and openness. This study focuses on co-curation mechanisms in the intelligent era. It first reviews the historical trajectory and theoretical framework of digital curation and explores the challenges confronting traditional curation mechanisms in the digital context. From the perspective of social innovation, this paper further analyzes the organizational models of digital sharing-based curation from three core dimensions: system openness, knowledge sharing and self-organization. Additionally, curatorial practices are examined across three hierarchical levels of citizen co-creation, community co-creation and urban co-creation, with an analysis of organizational forms and participation mechanisms at micro and macro scales. This research aims to establish a feasible methodological framework and theoretical foundation for curatorial practices featuring sharing, co-creation, joint construction and collaborative governance in the digital era, thus facilitating the development of innovative curatorial models and expanding development prospects for future curation.