Museum and Heritage Studies

Museums, Social Inclusion, and Online Networks

By Angelina Russo, Lynda Kelly

Series: Routledge Research in Museum Studies

Over the past few years an increasing number of museums have experimented with social media to demonstrate that they are listening and engaging in the world outside. While a number of new publications describe the rise of social media as a potential panacea for dwindling audiences, this book is...

To Be Published August 14th 2013 by Routledge

Museum Communication and Social Media

The Connected Museum

By Kirsten Drotner, Kim Christian Schrøder

Series: Routledge Research in Museum Studies

Visitor engagement and learning, outreach, and inclusion are concepts that have long dominated professional museum discourses. The recent rapid uptake of various forms of social media in many parts of the world, however, calls for a reformulation of familiar opportunities and obstacles in...

To Be Published April 25th 2013 by Routledge

Heritage and Social Media

Understanding heritage in a participatory culture

Edited by Elisa Giaccardi

Heritage and Social Media explores how social media reframes our understanding and experience of heritage. Through the idea of ‘participatory culture’ the book begins to examine how social media can be brought to bear on the encounter with heritage and on the socially produced meanings and values...

Published June 18th 2012 by Routledge

Museums in a Digital Age

Edited by Ross Parry

Series: Leicester Readers in Museum Studies

The influence of digital media on the cultural heritage sector has been pervasive and profound. Today museums are reliant on new technology to manage their collections. They collect digital as well as material things. New media is embedded within their exhibition spaces. And their activity online...

Published December 3rd 2009 by Routledge

Museum Informatics

People, Information, and Technology in Museums

By Paul F. Marty, Katherine Jones

Series: Routledge Studies in Library and Information Science

Museum Informatics explores the sociotechnical issues that arise when people, information, and technology interact in museums. It is designed specifically to address the many challenges faced by museums, museum professionals, and museum visitors in the information society. It examines not only...

Published January 6th 2009 by Routledge

New Heritage

New Media and Cultural Heritage

Edited by Yehuda Kalay, Thomas Kvan, Janice Affleck

The use of new media in the service of cultural heritage is a fast growing field, known variously as virtual or digital heritage. New Heritage, under this denomination, broadens the definition of the field to address the complexity of cultural heritage such as the related social, political and...

Published November 18th 2007 by Routledge

Recoding the Museum

Digital Heritage and the Technologies of Change

By Ross Parry

Series: Museum Meanings

Why has it taken so long to make computers work for the museum sector? And why are museums still having some of the same conversations about digital technology that they began back in the late 1960s? Does there continue to be a basic ‘incompatibility’ between the practice of the museum and the...

Published November 15th 2007 by Routledge

Digital Heritage

Edited by Lindsay MacDonald

In the fields of documentation and conservation of cultural heritage assets, there is a constant need for higher quality records and better analytical tools for extracting information about the condition of artefacts. Digital photography and digital image processing provide these capabilities, and...

Published April 10th 2006 by Routledge