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Helping Strangers Participate through Instructions: Deconstructing the MP3 Experiment

Museum 2.0

Participants gather in a physical venue with their own digital audio players, and everyone hits “play” at the same time. At 4:30, Steve starts a “pointing game” in which he asks you to point to the tallest building you can see, then the Statue of Liberty, then Nicaragua. You don’t have to have the right answer: you just have to try.