Museums in the New Mediascape

Transmedia, Participation, Ethics

Jenny Kidd (Cardiff University, UK)

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Routledge
27 February 2017

Library, archive & information management; Storage, maintenance & preservation of collections; Museums & museology

Series: Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities

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 representation in the new cultural sphere.

This insightful book unpacks a number of contradictions that help to frame and articulate digital media work in the museum and questions what constitutes authentic participation.

Based on original empirical research and a range of case studies the author explores questions about the museum as media from a number of different disciplines and shows that across museums and the study of them, the cultural logic is changing.

By: Jenny Kidd (Cardiff University UK)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 249g
ISBN: 9781138708884
ISBN 10: 1138708887
Series: Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 27 February 2017
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

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.

Reviews for Museums in the New Mediascape: Transmedia, Participation, Ethics

'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