1st Edition
A History of Participation in Museums and Archives Traversing Citizen Science and Citizen Humanities
Part I. Departures
1. Traversing Citizen Science and Citizen Humanities: Tacking stitches
Palmyre Pierroux, Per Hetland, & Line Esborg (University of Oslo, Norway)
Part II. Democratizations
Chapter 2. Museums as Sites of Participatory Democracy and Design
Palmyre Pierroux (University of Oslo, Norway), Mattias Bäckström (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway), Brita Brenna (University of Oslo, Norway), Geoffrey Gowlland (University of Oslo, Norway) & Gro Ween (University of Oslo, Norway)
Chapter 3. Participation and Engagement in a World of Increasing Complexity
Bernard Schiele (University of Quebec, Canada)
Chapter 4. Infrastructures that Democratize? Citizen participation and digital ethics
Jenny Kidd (Cardiff University, UK)
Part III Divides
Chapter 5. Knowledge Infrastructures for Citizen Science: The taming of knowledge
Christine Hine (University of Surrey, UK)
Chapter 6. Engaging Disenfranchised Publics Trough Citizen Humanities Projects
Line Esborg (University of Oslo, Norway)
Chapter 7. Engaging Older Adults in Science Education: Making the case for relevant, neighborhood-focused interventions
Karen Knutson & Kevin Crowley (University of Pittsburg, USA)
Part IV. Drives
Chapter 8. Remembering in Public: A Case Study of Museum-User Communication on Facebook
Emily Oswald (University of Oslo, Norway)
Chapter 9. The Participatory Turn: Users, publics, and audiences
Per Hetland (University of Oslo, Norway) & Kim Christian Schrøder (Roskilde University, Denmark)
Chapter 10. Searching for Deeper Meanings in Cultural Heritage Crowdsourcing
Sanita Reinsone (University of Latvia, Latvia)
Part V. Development
Chapter 11. Museums that Connect Science and Citizen: Using boundary objects and networks to encourage dialogue and collective response to wicked, socio-scientific problems
Mary Ann Steiner, Mandela Lyon & Kevin Crowley (University of Pittsburg, USA),
Chapter 12. The Participatory Epistemic Cultures of Citizen Humanities: Bildung and epistemic subjects
Dick Kasperowski, Christopher Kullenberg (University of Gothenburg, Sweden), & Frauke Rohden (University of Oslo, Norway)
Chapter 13. The Quest for Reciprocity: Citizen science as a form of gift exchange
Per Hetland (University of Oslo, Norway)
Part IV. Deductions
Chapter 14. Citizen Science, Citizen Humanities: Relevance for Museum Research and Practice
Palmyre Pierroux (University of Oslo, Norway)
Biography
Per Hetland (PhD) is Professor at the Department of Education, University of Oslo, Norway. Hetland holds a Dr. Philos. in science communication from University of Oslo and a PhD in innovation studies from Roskilde University, Denmark. His current research is focused on natural history research museums and citizen science.
Palmyre Pierroux (PhD) is Professor at the Department of Education, University of Oslo, Norway. She leads the Cultural Heritage Mediascapes project, which examines how participatory democracy concepts and digital media and technologies are transforming knowledge and communication practices in the cultural heritage sector.
Line Esborg (PhD) is Associate Professor at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo, Norway. Esborg serves as Senior Advisor at the Norwegian Folklore Archives, and her research is centered on folklore, digital heritage, and the politics of identity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
