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Why Are So Many Participatory Experiences Focused on Teens?

Museum 2.0

Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects? Teens are a known (and somewhat controllable) entity. The first of these reasons is practical.

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The Participatory Nonprofit?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Social networking requires commitment -- you can't set up a MySpace profile and then walk away. According to recent study from Pew Internet and American Life project, more than one-half of teens have created media content and roughly one-third have shared ocntent. The skill set: Play ??? the capacity to experiment with one???s

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Backwards Interview: My Advice for Incorporation of Web 2.0 into Museums

Museum 2.0

technique/application that will fit those goals. If you had one youth educator, would you expect them to develop and run overnights AND scout programs AND teen programs AND toddler programs AND outreach AND… of course not. Do your MySpace friends come to museum programs? into their repertoire? And my response.

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