A history of participation in museums and archives : traversing citizen science and citizen humanities /

"Traversing disciplines, A History of Participation in Museums and Archives provides a framework for understanding how participatory modes in natural, cultural and scientific heritage institutions intersect with practices in Citizen Science and Citizen Humanities. Drawing on perspectives in cul...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	Taylor & Francis
Other Authors:	Hetland, Per (Editor), Pierroux, Palmyre (Editor), Esborg, Line (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
Subjects:	Museums and community. Museums > Citizen participation. Archives > Citizen participation. Museums > Social aspects. Archives > Social aspects. Communication in museums. Communication in learning and scholarship. Cultural property. Archives > Aspect social. Archives > Participation des citoyens. Communication dans les musées. Communication savante. Musées > Aspect social. Musées > Participation des citoyens. Patrimoine culturel. Relations musée-collectivité. cultural property. Art > Museum Studies. Language Arts & Disciplines > Library & Information Science > Archives & Special Libraries. Archives > Social aspects Communication in learning and scholarship Communication in museums Cultural property Museums and community Museums > Citizen participation Museums > Social aspects Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Departure; 1. Traversing citizen science and citizen humanities: Tacking stitches; Democratization 2. Museums as sites of participatory democracy and design; 3. Participation and engagement in a world of increasing complexity; 4. Infrastructures that democratize? Citizen participation and digital ethics Divides; 5. Knowledge infrastructures for citizen science: The taming of knowledge; 6. Engaging disenfranchised publics through citizen humanities projects; 7. Engaging older adults in science education: Making the case for relevant, neighborhood-focused interventions Drives; 8. Remembering in public: A case study of museum-user communication on Facebook; 9. The participatory turn: Users, publics, and audiences; 10. Searching for deeper meanings in cultural heritage crowdsourcing Developments; 11. Museums that Connect Science and communities: Using boundary objects and networks to encourage dialogue and collective response to wicked, socio-scientific problems; 12. The participatory epistemic cultures of citizen humanities: Bildung and epistemic subjects; 13. The quest for reciprocity: Citizen science as a form of gift exchange Deductions; 14. Citizen science, citizen humanities: Relevance for museum research and practice