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What's Your Leisure Identity? Does it Bring You Into Museums?

Museum 2.0

In it, John provides a model for the museum visitor experience based on one fundamental idea: people visit and make meaning from museum experiences based on their ability to fulfill identity-related goals and interests. The professional/hobbyist has a very specific, directed goal for her visit related to her work or a focused hobby.

Museum 28
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The Struggles and Strategies of Online Organizing: An Interview with Leda Dederich

Have Fun - Do Good

Like data management and databases, that seems to be kind of killing everybody, that's sort of the heart of the challenge for a lot of people. So that was one of the main goals of this report, was, "What's really going on? So that was really the primary goal, was like, "What's going on with these folks, and how can we help them?"