Engaged Dialogism in Virtual Space: An Exploration of Research Strategies for Virtual Museums

Deshpande, Suhas; Geber, Kati; Timpson, Corey

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“…Technologies for virtuality are another privileged resource for the museums' digital transition due to their immediate and evident appeal and attractiveness, receiving a wide response from institutions above all for purposes related to increased visit flow. A whole vein of explorative research studies, actually, has been developed on the potentialities of those technologies and their role in museum communication, especially in the reconstruction of objects, people, and complete environments [45][46][47], mainly for on-site use to enrich the visit experience and add precious informative content about objects, their original context and use, or generally, their stories [48], up to hypothesizing and applying the concept of a virtual museum in its complex [49,50]. From this point of view, the perceived potential of this concept has led to meditations above all on definitions and possible classifications with respect to different levels of complexity and interactivity [6,51,52], although the first efforts to apply the concept date back several years [53].…”

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The Communication Challenge in Archaeological Museums in Puglia: Insights into the Contribution of Social Media and ICTs to Small-Scale Institutions

Lerario

2023

Heritage

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Archaeological museums play a vital role in regions with ancient roots, holding a millennial image as the cradle of civilization. In the South of Italy (former “Magna Graecia”) and particularly in Puglia—a melting pot of cultures where ancient Messapian, Byzantine, Roman, and Greek civilizations followed one another in ages, bequeathing a wealth of testimonies—institutions are disseminated across the region, and almost every small municipality has its own archaeological museum hosting a wealth of valuable objects and remains. The gradual structural changes in the role of museums over the last decades and the recent COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, with the sudden closing and subsequent re-opening of facilities, forced institutions to re-think and re-develop their communication practices everywhere. Museums across the world have since been conceiving original and effective strategies based on social media and ICTs. After framing the problem background, the article introduces an overview of good practice and virtuous examples in the museum field and a questionnaire-based focus survey on a sample of archaeological museums in Puglia in order to assess the status of local communication strategies’ implementation against the potential of modern technologies. The survey results allowed identifying a peculiar mix of “emergency” and evolutional approaches in the sample analyzed, main concerns and barriers to the adoption of digital strategies, but also specific strategic drivers for innovation in the very nature of local small institutions. The study’s outcomes offer a potential contribution to the alignment of institutions to current standards through informed policies that can be usefully shared in other similar contexts across Europe.

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The Communication Challenge in Archaeological Museums in Puglia: Insights into the Contribution of Social Media and ICTs to Small-Scale Institutions

Lerario

2023

Heritage

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“…Although there are various media alternatives to depict museum exhibits in accommodating multiple modalities, the museum mainly uses verbal (text) and visual (pictures) in their exhibit presentation strategies. Because multimedia instructions rely significantly on a well-designed environment to suit the diverse levels of intellectual ability of distinct museum visitors, a museum exhibit must be linked with the proper instructional methodologies (McKay et al, 2003) and effectively blended (Deshpande et al, 2007).…”

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Rasch Model Case Study: Investigating Cognitive Performances of School Children's Museum Learning Experiences

Alwi

2021

Manage Your Own Learning Analytics

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Learning analytics is used to improve learning and the environment in which it takes place. There has been much research on measuring, gathering, and analysing learner data in formal educational settings. However, its use in informal learning environments like museums appears to be promising. This chapter describes a case study investigating the cognitive performances of school children aged 10-12 years old during their museum learning experiences by considering the differences in human cognitive preferences. The research study focused on the Dinosaur Walk exhibition in Melbourne Museum as the context of the investigation. The main objective of the research study was to look into the relationship in the form of interactive effect between the students' cognitive preferences and the museum information representation formats in facilitating their museum learning experiences. This research is important as museum learning has been well accepted as informal learning to support formal education. Hence, this chapter serves as an example of managing learning analytics within the informal educational domain. The case study can be exemplary to the education sector and related organisations or businesses towards understanding, planning, and assessing students' performances and preparing a better way of facilitating/supporting learners' learning processes and experiences.

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“…Diderot's concept of a 'fourth wall' is an apt metaphor for framing the traditional relationship between indigenous peoples and archaeological discourse. Typically, indigenous communities have been relegated to the sidelines, passively observing as artifacts are interpreted from a western, rationalist perspective, where 'facts' are meant to be value free and beyond question (Brown, 2007(Brown, , 2008Cameron, 2007;Champion and Bharat, 2007;Deshpande et al, 2007;Witcomb, 2007). In order to engage indigenous peoples -and other traditional and descendant communities -in the practice of archaeological interpretation, new discourses need to be developed which are more inclusive, experiential, and meaningful (Brown, 2007(Brown, , 2008.…”

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‘Breaking the fourth wall’: 3D virtual worlds as tools for knowledge repatriation in archaeology

Dawson

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Lyons

2011

Journal of Social Archaeology

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Interactive 3-dimensional worlds and computer modeling can be used to excite interest in archaeology among indigenous groups such as the Inuit of the North American Arctic and Greenland. Using two case studies -a recently completed exhibition for the Virtual Museum of Canada on Thule Inuit whalebone houses and an interactive virtual world structured around the Siglit-Inuvialuit sod house -we explore how digital replicas might be used in the repatriation of traditional knowledge. This idea is examined through the experiences of nine Inuit Elders who explored our digital reconstructions of Thule and Siglit-Inuvialuit dwellings in 3D. Discussions with the Elders suggest that the generic sense of 'presence' generated by 3D viewing enhanced their feelings of connectedness to their past. This would imply that virtual reality and 3D technology might be useful in establishing new discourses in archaeological interpretation, as well as assisting in the exploration, construction, and maintenance of cultural identities through knowledge repatriation.

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Engaged Dialogism in Virtual Space: An Exploration of Research Strategies for Virtual Museums

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The Communication Challenge in Archaeological Museums in Puglia: Insights into the Contribution of Social Media and ICTs to Small-Scale Institutions

The Communication Challenge in Archaeological Museums in Puglia: Insights into the Contribution of Social Media and ICTs to Small-Scale Institutions

Rasch Model Case Study: Investigating Cognitive Performances of School Children's Museum Learning Experiences

‘Breaking the fourth wall’: 3D virtual worlds as tools for knowledge repatriation in archaeology

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