Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

I like to use half of any allotted time slot to talk and half for Q&A, so we usually have time to get into meaty discussions. Have you seen attitudes in our field about visitor participation shifting over time? In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what." The Museum 2.0 Yes and no.

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Museum Question Participatory Evaluation 45

Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I like to use half of any allotted time slot to talk and half for Q&A, so we usually have time to get into meaty discussions. Have you seen attitudes in our field about visitor participation shifting over time? In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what." The Museum 2.0 Yes and no.

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Question Participatory Museum Evaluation 49

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Second, in 2008 and 2009, when the economy dipped and membership renewal rates started to soften, we started to think more seriously about the emotional factor of supporting the arts in the community. One person expressed a desire to spend alone time with a work of art in a kind of member contemplation room.

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Interview Director Museum Arts 46

Museum 2.0

MARCH 10, 2010

This is the first of a four-part series on the behind-the-scenes experience of writing The Participatory Museum. Overview: Stages of Development and Participation Types The Participatory Museum was written over a 15 month period that began in December of 2008. The dead time in October was an error on my part--that data was lost.

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Participatory Museum Statistics Process 21

Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The Digital Media and Learning Conference is meant to be an inclusive, international and annual gathering of scholars and practitioners in the field, focused on fostering interdisciplinary and participatory dialogue and linking theory, empirical study, policy, and practice. Each fall since 2008 MNN has hosted an annual conference and expo.

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Conference Calendar DC Washington 111

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 10, 2009

I've spent the last two weeks working on the third chapter of my book about network effects of social participation. Race is a remarkably social exhibit; visitors spend a lot of time pointing things out to each other and talking about them. Pointing is a social behavior that works best in physically proximate, real-time situations.

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Social Network Tech Network Museum 22

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

This spring, I was a member of the advisory board for the New Media Consortium's 2008 Horizon Report on emerging technologies in museums. The participatory "ask" is high--to create original content. After the conference, the wiki switched from being a participatory site to a useful record. But wikis are a very specific tool.

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Wiki Wikipedia Museum Doc 23