The Digital Future for Museums

Bowen, Jonathan P.; Giannini, Tula

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-97457-6_28

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“…Museums and cultural organisations, as trusted independent institutions, have the potential to be relevant, socially-engaged spaces for digital citizens, learning from there visitors as part of the process (Bowen & Giannini 2019). However, they also need to be transparent in the process in order to support an environment of mutual trust to enable perspectives and learnings to be shared, and not least to facilitate a shared understanding of the aims and ethos of the underlying activity, and the context of the participants.…”

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The Rise of Digital Citizenship and the Participatory Museum

Borda

Bowen

2021

Electronic Workshops in Computing

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In the paper, we explore the notion of digital citizenship, particularly with respect to museums and cultural organisations. Digitally literate citizens are more often able to engage on the Internet as part of one or more online communities. We start by considering some examples of pioneering digital citizenship before the term became widely used. We then survey some more current examples and how museums can adapt to this development for the benefit of all. Digital citizenship related to other phenomena such as citizen science and citizen journalism. Being a good digital citizen involves a certain level of digital literacy, and also altruism, but the necessary literacy increasingly prevalent as digital technology and culture spreads around the world.

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The Rise of Digital Citizenship and the Participatory Museum

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Bowen

2021

Electronic Workshops in Computing

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“…Standing at a crossroads between real and virtual 21 st -century life, cultural conflicts are illuminated by online access to art collections, historical documents, and social narratives. We find ourselves exploring anew the past, rethinking the present and revisioning the future of our global networked culture, using exciting new ways of knowing, doing, and experiencing [6]. Computational connections and technologies strengthen digital identity in the arts and the cultures they represent [7,8.9].…”

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Global Cultural Conflict and Digital Identity: Transforming Museums

Giannini¹,

Bowen²

2023

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This paper looks at key elements of global culture that are driving a new paradigm shift in museums causing them to question their raison d'être, their design and physical space, recognizing the need to accommodate visitor interaction and participation, and to reprioritize institutional outcomes and goals reexamining their priorities. As heritage sharing in online spaces reaches across national, political, and social boundaries on platforms and networks, this has been driven by museum engagement with Internet life during the pandemic. Museum relationships and interactions with communities both local and global, continue to challenge core values and precepts, leading to radical changes in how museums define their roles and responsibilities. In this new cultural landscape, museums are responding to human digital identity in a tidal wave of human interactions on the Internet, from social media to online sharing of images and videos. This is revealing shared perspectives on cultural conflict as being tied to freedom of expression of one’s heritage embedded in digital identity.

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“…No doubt, the Internet will play a key role as museums expand their state of digitality across communication, user experience, interaction, outreach, and diversity, adding emerging technologies such as 3D, AR, VR, MR, AI, and introducing experiential learning online post-Covid. The digital future for museums will certainly be exciting and no doubt sometimes unexpected [35].…”

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Museums and Digital Culture: From Reality to Digitality in the Age of Covid-19

Giannini¹,

Bowen²

2021

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Museums increasingly recognize the need to address advances in digital culture which impact the expectations and needs of their audiences. Museum collections of real objects need to be presented both on their own premises and digitally online, especially as social media becomes more and more influential in people’s everyday lives. We investigate these challenges magnified by advances in digital and computational media and culture looking particularly at recent and relevant reports on changes in the ways museums interact with the public. We find that the Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated many of the changes driving museum transformation. We believe that museums must be more prepared than ever to adapt to unabated technological advances set in the midst of cultural and social revolution, now intrinsic to the digital landscape in which museums are inevitably connected and participating across the global digital ecosystem where they inevitably find themselves entrenched.

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The Digital Future for Museums

Cited by 13 publications

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The Rise of Digital Citizenship and the Participatory Museum

The Rise of Digital Citizenship and the Participatory Museum

Global Cultural Conflict and Digital Identity: Transforming Museums

Museums and Digital Culture: From Reality to Digitality in the Age of Covid-19

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