1st Edition

Museums in the New Mediascape Transmedia, Participation, Ethics

By Jenny Kidd Copyright 2014
176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

The museum today faces complex questions of definition, representation, ethics, aspiration and economic survival. Alongside this we see burgeoning use of an array of new media including increasingly dynamic web portals and content, digital archives, social networks, blogs and online games. At the heart of this are changes to the idea of ’visitor’ and ’audience’ and their participation and... Read more
Contents: Introduction: on museum media; The transmedia museum; Museum communications in social networks; User-created content; Democratising narratives: or, the accumulation of the digital memory archive; ’Interactives’ in the social museum; Museum online games as empathetic encounters; Mashup the museum; Bibliography; Index.

Biography

Jenny Kidd is Lecturer in Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies at Cardiff University, UK. She is co-editor of 'Performing Heritage' (with Anthony Jackson, 2010) and 'Challenging History in the Museum' (with Sam Cairns, Alex Drago, Amy Ryall and Miranda Stearn, 2014). Jenny has published widely on museums, new media and participatory practices.

'Bolstering her arguments by robust and refined empirical analyses, Kidd brings the notion of museums as media into the 21st century.' Kirsten Drotner, University of Southern Denmark 'This is an important contribution to debates around museums today, and a book that consistently asks intelligent and challenging questions of museum critics, practitioners and audiences...' - LSE Review of Books

'Kidd’s Museums in the New Mediascape: Transmedia, Participation, Ethics is the book that the sector needs, seeking to discuss the role, purpose and value of media in museums within the context of a post-digital world.' - Amy Hetherington, University of Leicester