Blog archive: Museullaneous
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Kids and credibility in the online world
What do children think about the credibility of information they find online? A new report from MIT Press gives answers.
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Museums and Wikipedia
Is there a place for museums and Wikipedia? Yes, according to the British Museum.
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The role of narrative in museum exhibitions
Just been reading a review of several museums in an article by Amanda Lohrey called The Absent Heart in The Monthly, June 2010. Got me inspired to re-visit the work I did on narrative in my doctoral thesis, and here's some thoughts.
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USA Trip 2010: Impressions from a land far far away
Been travelling in the States. First to Washington to present the George Brown Goode Memorial Lecture at the Smithsonian (talk titled How Web 2.0 is Changing the Nature of Museum Work), then to the American Association of Museums Conference in Los Angeles.
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Who is the public? A talk by John Falk
Who is the Public? Research in Identity in Museums, a talk by John Falk, Oregon State University, 18 May 2010.
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What is identity?
Attended a talk by John Falk about identity and thought might be useful to post some of the literature I reviewed in my thesis about identity generally.
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How has identity been described in a museum context?
Second post about identity outlining what has been written about identity in the museum context.
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Museum visitors and learning identities
My thesis investigated adult museum visitors'; learning identities. Here's some of what I concluded in my thesis about identity based on my extensive doctoral research.
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The dinner table
People love to sit around a table and share - whether it's a meal, a conversation over coffee, a bunch of papers to discuss, maps to pore over, photos to compare - we do this around a table. Why not at a museum too?
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How do Australian Museum visitors use social media?
Having found that Australian Museum visitors used social networking sites, how are they actually using these? Are they passive users or actively engaged?
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Museums and the Web Conference 2010
Links to papers and online summaries from the 2010 Museums and the Web Conference.
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Smartphones and open content – emerging trends
Smartphones are changing the face of journalism and open content is changing the nature of education – what does this mean for providing museum content on demand?
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Are we addicted to social media?
A new study from the International Center for Media; the Public Agenda (ICMPA) at the University of Maryland suggests that we are.
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Australian Museum Visitors: hobbies and interests
What other interests, hobbies, group memberships etc do our visitors have?
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Museums and Web 2.0
Notes and links for a Masterclass I'm teaching on March 24, 2010, for University of Technology students.
