Digital Cultural Communication: Audience and Remediation

Russo, Angelina; Watkins, Jerry

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“…The concept of trusting audiences and encouraging visitor participation in interpretation runs contrary to the traditional ideas of museum authority and communication (Lynch and Alberti 2010). There appears to be within the museum profession an ingrained fear that visitors will leave inappropriate comments when there is no moderation or intervention by the museum (Russo and Watkins 2005). This is despite research showing that museum visitors want to engage with complex, controversial topics by making comments or talking to staff and other visitors (Kelly 2006).…”

Section: What Worked Well Outcome: Visitors Engaging With Issuesmentioning

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Natural history museums asprovocateursfor dialogue and debate

Carnall

Ashby

Ross

2013

Museum Management and Curatorship

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Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. Interpretation in natural history museums is generally conservative with methods of collections interpretation barely changed since the first natural history museums were founded. For all the changes undertaken by museums in the last 20 years, sector leaders such as the American Museum of Natural History, the Natural History Museum, London, the National Museum, Prague, Museum fü r Naturkunde, Berlin and the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris still operate by connecting objects with facts about their biology. The recent relocation of the Grant Museum of Zoology at University College London has offered the opportunity for the museum to become a space for dialogue and experimentation.The museum, in collaboration with the university, has developed 'social interpretation' designed to engage visitors with controversial questions in life sciences and museum practice. Visitor responses are recorded and used as the basis to plan future work.The paper explores how this form of engagement with visitors might allow natural history museums to add to established methods of interpretation, and Á in a form of co-production with their visitors Á challenge attitudes to scientific knowledge and its development. Thus, the way natural history museums function as sources of knowledge for the public and the 'front line' of biological engagement is potentially changed, based on the responses of museum visitors.

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Section: What Worked Well Outcome: Visitors Engaging With Issuesmentioning

confidence: 85%

Natural history museums asprovocateursfor dialogue and debate

Carnall

Ashby

Ross

2013

Museum Management and Curatorship

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“…Notes 1. Russo and Watkins (2007) described "community co-creation" as cultural institutions and communities working together to create digital content, each benefiting and learning from the other's expertise and experience. 2.…”

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“…Yet individuals struggle with what to keep, where to put it, how to organize it, and how to find it later (Barreau, 1995;Bernstein, Van Kleek, Karger, & Schraefel, 2008;Jones, 2008;Marshall & Jones, 2006). Library and information professionals working through their organizations have the technical expertise and the technical infrastructure to help individuals capture and preserve their digital records and to facilitate co-creation of a community repository (Japzon, 2008;Russo & Watkins, 2007).…”

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Helping People to Manage and Share Their Digital Information: A Role for Public Libraries

Copeland¹,

Barreau²

2011

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As a cultural institution, the public library is charged with providing resources and services that fit the needs of a particular community and, if space and budgets allow, of serving as a resource and repository of the community's past. To fulfill its mission to the public, the library must attract that public by offering materials and providing opportunities for them to pursue their unique and varied interests and discover new things. By engaging individuals in the identification and preservation of their own personal, digital objects, it may be possible to increase awareness in, and commitment to, community repositories that reflect a community's diversity and that will serve all. A user education program that focuses on the importance of identifying and preserving the information and artifacts that are important, that addresses the technical aspects of preservation, and that creates awareness of the benefits and challenges associated with sharing personal information can result in a community repository that ultimately has more value for both the individual and the community.

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“…Following there is a series of goals that an "Archive of Temporary Projects" should pursued: a) to start and encourage a debate on the topic of the Temporary Project in order to analyze current trends in a historical-critical context [8]; b) to preserve and also enhance these "design heritage" thanks to training and "popular" reprocessing of project's documents, from the planning process to physical expositive realizations; c) to be a mediator and facilitator both between non-experts and specialists of different design disciplines [9]; d) to test new ways of fruition of cultural intangible goods, such as cultural events, meeting the cultural needs of new audiences [10].…”

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Virtual Archive of Temporary Exhibitions: New scenarios for the documentation, storage and fruition of an “Ephemeral Memory”

Spagnoli

2012

2012 18th International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia

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The project "Virtual Archive of Temporary Exhibitions" deals with the development of an online archive able to document, preserve and make available digital materials related to the design of temporary exhibitions and cultural events. The project, in view of a renewed interest in the theme of "project's archives", focuses on Virtual Archives and Museums as fields of inquiry and application of Virtual's potentialities in preserving and documenting the "memory of the Temporary". Virtual Archives are also seen as paradigmatic "places" to verify design's potentiality in terms of cultural heritage valorization and in terms of definition of new fruitive "intangible" scenarios.Keywords -virtual archive; memory of the Temporary; digital heritage; new paradigms of fruition; digital storytelling; exhibition design.

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Digital Cultural Communication: Audience and Remediation

Cited by 28 publications

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Natural history museums asprovocateursfor dialogue and debate

Natural history museums asprovocateursfor dialogue and debate

Helping People to Manage and Share Their Digital Information: A Role for Public Libraries

Virtual Archive of Temporary Exhibitions: New scenarios for the documentation, storage and fruition of an “Ephemeral Memory”

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Helping People to Manage and Share Their Digital Information: A Role for Public Libraries

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