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Letting Go? : sharing historical authority in a user-generated world / edited by Bill Adair, Benjamin Filene, and Laura Koloski.
- Title
- Letting Go? : sharing historical authority in a user-generated world / edited by Bill Adair, Benjamin Filene, and Laura Koloski.
- Publication
- Philadelphia, PA : Pew Center for Arts & Heritage ; Walnut Creek : Distributed by Left Coast Press, c2011.
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| Text | Request in advance | CD950 .L488 2011 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 335 p. : ill. (some col.); 23 cm.
- Summary
- Thought pieces, case studies, and conversations explore the implications of letting audiences create--not just receive--historical content.
- Subjects
- Oral histories
- Heimatmuseum der Gemeinde Gründau
- Public records > Information resources management
- Museums and the Internet
- Learning and scholarship
- Archives > Technological innovations
- Oral history
- Public history
- Social media > Influence
- User-generated content
- Archives > Information resources management
- Knowledge management
- Genre/Form
- Oral history.
- Oral histories
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Foreword / Paula Marincola -- Introduction / Bill Adair, Benjamin Filene, and Laura Koloski -- Virtually breaking down: authority and the web. Thought piece: Participatory design and the future of museums / Nina Simon -- Case study: Where are the best stories? Where is my story?-- participation and curation in a new media age / Steve Zeitlin -- Conversation: Online dialogue and cultural practice: a conversation / Matthew Fisher and Bill Adair -- Thought piece: Get real! The role of objects in the digital age / Matthew MacArthur -- Throwing open the doors: communities as curators. Thought piece: Whose questions, whose conversations? / Kathleen McLean -- Conversation: The "dialogic museum" revisited: a collaborative reflection / John Kuo Wei Tchen and Liz Ševčenko -- Case study: Moving pictures: Minnesota's most rewarding film competition. Introduction / Randal Dietrich -- "Remembering Grandma Lucy" / Tom Drube
- "From book to film--the artifacts of wartime history" / Matt Ehling -- Case study/conversation: Community as curator: a case study at the Brooklyn Historical Society / Deborah Schwartz and Bill Adair -- Hearing voices: sharing authority through oral history. Thought piece: From A shared authority to the digital kitchen, and back / Michael Frisch -- Case study: Make yourself at home--welcoming voices in Open house: if these walls could talk / Benjamin Filene -- Case study: The black bottom: making community-based performance in West Philadelphia / Billy Yalowitz, graphic art by Pete Stathis -- Case study: Listening intently: can StoryCorps teach museums how to win the hearts of new audiences? / Benjamin Filene -- The question of evaluation: understanding the visitors' response. Public curation: form trend to research-based practice / Tom Satwicz and Kris Morrissey
- Constructing perspectives: artists and historical authority. Thought piece: Peering behind the curtain: artists and questioning historical authority / Melissa Rachleff -- Conversation: Mining the museum revisited: a conversation / Fred Wilson, Paula Marincola, and Marjorie Schwarzer -- Case study: "The fever dream of the amateur historian": Ben Katchor's The Rosenbach company: a tragicomedy / Melissa Rachleff -- Case study: Embracing the unexpected: artists in resdience at the American Philosophical Society Museum / Laura Koloski -- Art piece: Sanford and sun / Otabenga Jones -- Case study: A London travelogue: visiting Dennis Severs' house / Mary Teeling.
- ISBN
- 9780983480303 (pbk.)
- 0983480303 (pbk.)
- 9781611327908 (electronic) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- ^^2011935405
- OCLC
- 758521080
- SCSB-11065380
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library