Embedding civil engagement in museums

Black, Graham

doi:10.1080/09647771003737257

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“…Stuedahl and Smørdal [29] claim that social media has been adopted so readily by museums for its potential to help visitors cocreate and interact socially with museum exhibits themselves. This reflects the now common call for museums to be more responsive, democratic, and reflective, and to reach outside their own buildings to connect with broader segments of the public [2,14]. In addition, visitor learning is of primary concern to museums and in recent years a prominent discourse has emerged that touts the potential for social media to take a central role in learning in informal environments such as museums, libraries and galleries [26,32].…”

Section: Mobile Technologies and Social Media In Museumsmentioning

confidence: 94%

“…Despite arguments within the museums community for increased use of social media, the technology is also considered by some to be an issue for museum as institutions [2]. Unlike museum owned technologies such as personal guides, visitor owned technologies like smartphones are outside the control of exhibition developers and museum administrators.…”

Section: Extending the Dialogue Beyond The Museummentioning

confidence: 99%

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Instagram at the museum

Weilenmann

Hillman

Jungselius

2013

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

121

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The everyday use of smartphones with high quality built-in cameras has lead to an increase in museum visitors' use of these devices to document and share their museum experiences. In this paper, we investigate how one particular photo sharing application, Instagram, is used to communicate visitors' experiences while visiting a museum of natural history. Based on an analysis of 222 instagrams created in the museum, as well as 14 interviews with the visitors who created them, we unpack the compositional resources and concerns contributing to the creation of instagrams in this particular context. By re-categorizing and re-configuring the museum environment, instagrammers work to construct their own narratives from their visits. These findings are then used to discuss what emerging multimedia practices imply for the visitors' engagement with and documentation of museum exhibits. Drawing upon these practices, we discuss the connection between online social media dialogue and the museum site.

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Section: Mobile Technologies and Social Media In Museumsmentioning

confidence: 94%

Section: Extending the Dialogue Beyond The Museummentioning

confidence: 99%

Instagram at the museum

Weilenmann

Hillman

Jungselius

2013

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

121

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“…Over the past few decades, two main interrelated developments have occurred in the cultural heritage sector that have had a deep impact on cultural heritage institutions. Firstly, museums have questioned their expert-centric approaches [59] to seek a more active participation from local communities [11], with a growing focus on marginalised communities [12,15]. Migrant and refugee communities are a prominent stakeholder to be engaged in these attempts, given the recognition of the importance of culture and heritage as means of social inclusion and of wellbeing.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Bridging cultural heritage and communities through digital technologies

Giglitto

Ciolfi

Claisse

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Communities &Amp; Technologies - Transforming Communities

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Bridging cultural heritage and communities through digital technologies: Understanding perspectives and challenges GIGLITTO, Danilo, CIOLFI, Luigina , CLAISSE, Caroline and LOCKLEY, Eleanor Available from Sheffield Hallam University Research Archive (SHURA) at:ABSTRACT We present and discuss the results of a qualitative study aimed at identifying what role interactive digital technologies could play in facilitating the participation of communities at risk of exclusion (particularly migrants and refugees) in cultural and heritage-related activities. Culture and heritage are known to be key factors in fostering social inclusion, and this has the potential for contributing to both the wellbeing of these communities and to cultural institutions themselves. Through surveys and interviews with two cohorts of participants (cultural heritage professionals and community facilitators), we gathered insights about their perspectives on how ICT tools could support their work with and for communities, as well as the challenges they face. This work sheds light on the opportunities and barriers surrounding the use of digital technologies for participation in the cultural heritage sector, which is timely due to the increasing focus on grassroots and community-led heritage initiatives and to the growing body of work on participatory ICT in disciplines such as human-computer interaction and community informatics.

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“…This entails developing imaginative events and activities to highlight the diverse nature of heritage and developing user-generated content (Black 2010). Sandell (2003, 45-46) refers to recent research which suggests that museums as social institutions can contribute towards social inclusion at individual, community and societal levels.…”

Section: Memorial Museumsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In their respective articles Richard Sandell (2003), Vikki McCall (2009) and Graham Black (2010 look at the various criteria museums should meet to engage with their users in the "great issues of the day" and to actively support community empowerment.…”

Section: Memorial Museumsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Collections create connections: stitching the lives of marginalised women on the national memory canvas

Merwe

2015

Museum Management and Curatorship

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In his work Past beyond memory: Evolution, museums, colonialism, Tony Bennett asks how museums can "shed the legacy of evolutionary conceptions and colonial science, so that they can contribute to the development and management of cultural diversity more effectively". This question is of particular pertinence in the South African context where for a long time the material found in public or government-funded museums on those not from the dominant sectors of society presented these marginalised people as "objects rather than citizens and individual actors in their own right". Issues of inclusion or connection and exclusion are central to democracy -who feels connected to civil society, who does not, and why? Who feels their voice is heard and who does not?"Over the past few decades a number of community embroidery projects have been initiated in formerly marginalised areas. These projects have made a name for themselves in terms of their artistic merit and have participated in exhibitions both nationally and internationally.Proponents of these initiatives claim that they go beyond connecting these craft artists with a wider audience. This paper will discuss how these collections of embroidered story cloths can contribute to a more inclusive society by combatting disadvantage, empowering communities and developing social capital so that people can have an informed involvement in the creation of an inclusive South African national memory.

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Embedding civil engagement in museums

Cited by 41 publications

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Instagram at the museum

Instagram at the museum

Bridging cultural heritage and communities through digital technologies

Collections create connections: stitching the lives of marginalised women on the national memory canvas

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