Ana Sánchez Laws

Museum Websites and Social Media (eBook, ePUB)

Issues of Participation, Sustainability, Trust and Diversity

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Online activities present a unique challenge for museums as they harness the potential of digital technology for sustainable development, trust building, and representations of diversity. This volume offers a holistic picture of museum online activities that can serve as a starting point for cross-disciplinary discussion. It is a resource for museum staff, students, designers, and researchers working at the intersection of cultural institutions and digital technologies. The aim is to provide insight into the issues behind designing and implementing web pages and social media to serve the broadest range of museum stakeholders.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781782388692
• Artikelnr.: 44849052

Autorenporträt

Ana Sánchez Laws is Associate Professor in Media and Design, Volda University College, Norway. She is the author of Panamanian Museums and Historical Memory (Berghahn Books 2011), has collaborated on projects at the Panama Viejo Monumental Complex (World Heritage Site), and is a video artist whose works have been exhibited around the globe.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I: HISTORY AND THEORY
Chapter 1. Museums online, from repositories to forums
Chapter 2. Digital heritage and sustainability
Chapter 3. Trusting the online museum
PART II: PRACTICE
Chapter 4. A practical social media primer for museum staff
Chapter 5. A Survey of Museum Social Media
PART III: CASES
Chapter 6. The Museum of London (MOL)
Chapter 7. The Museum of World Culture (Världskulturmuseet) and the
Carlotta Portal
Chapter 8. Comparing off- and online Aboriginal, Indigenous and 'Ethnic'
representations in museums and galleries in Sydney and Panama City
PART IV: FUTURES
Chapter 9. Augmenting The Garden of Australian Dreams at the National
Museum of Australia
Chapter 10. Cultural Interfaces to Environmental Data at the Questacon
National Science Centre, Australia
Conclusion
References
Index