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Museum Photo Policies Should Be as Open as Possible

Museum 2.0

While doing research, I found myself digging back into old arguments on museum listservs about photo policies and I want to add my two (very opinionated) cents on this. Conservation: Objects may be damaged by flash photography. Conservation: Objects may be damaged by flash photography. But what about visitors?

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How Digital Democracy Empowers Marginalized Communities

Tech Soup

Digital citizenship: In the final stage, communities can use these tools and knowledge to work with governments and affect policy. This is best done in a participatory fashion, making sure that data is available offline. Dd is also testing low cost drones that locals can use and repair to perform aerial photography and surveying.

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Frameworks and Lessons from the Public Participation in Science Research Report

Museum 2.0

What does the word "participatory" mean to you? The various definitions of participatory projects can lead to confusion and misunderstandings. Participation in science research is a good basis on which to develop a framework for participatory models because it is based on a consistent scientific process with many steps.

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Arts 2.0: Examples of Arts Organizations Social Media Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They're now running a compelling experiment in crowd-sourced exhibition creation and curation via the photography exhibition Click. But as Nina notes, they are doing research from this experiment about the role of independence and influence in a participatory experience. see for example the post about blogging policy ).

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