Research Catalog

Title

Letting Go? : sharing historical authority in a user-generated world / edited by Bill Adair, Benjamin Filene, and Laura Koloski.

Publication

Philadelphia, PA : Pew Center for Arts & Heritage ; Walnut Creek : Distributed by Left Coast Press, c2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Adair, Bill
• Filene, Benjamin
• Koloski, Laura

Description

335 p. : ill. (some col.); 23 cm.

Summary

Thought pieces, case studies, and conversations explore the implications of letting audiences create--not just receive--historical content.

Subject

• Heimatmuseum der Gemeinde Gründau
• Knowledge management
• Archives > Information resources management
• User-generated content
• Social media > Influence
• Public history
• Oral history
• Archives > Technological innovations
• Learning and scholarship
• Museums and the Internet
• Public records > Information resources management

Genre/Form

• Oral history.
• Oral histories

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Foreword / Paula Marincola -- Introduction / Bill Adair, Benjamin Filene, and Laura Koloski -- Virtually breaking down: authority and the web. Thought piece: Participatory design and the future of museums / Nina Simon -- Case study: Where are the best stories? Where is my story?-- participation and curation in a new media age / Steve Zeitlin -- Conversation: Online dialogue and cultural practice: a conversation / Matthew Fisher and Bill Adair -- Thought piece: Get real! The role of objects in the digital age / Matthew MacArthur -- Throwing open the doors: communities as curators. Thought piece: Whose questions, whose conversations? / Kathleen McLean -- Conversation: The "dialogic museum" revisited: a collaborative reflection / John Kuo Wei Tchen and Liz Ševčenko -- Case study: Moving pictures: Minnesota's most rewarding film competition. Introduction / Randal Dietrich -- "Remembering Grandma Lucy" / Tom Drube
• "From book to film--the artifacts of wartime history" / Matt Ehling -- Case study/conversation: Community as curator: a case study at the Brooklyn Historical Society / Deborah Schwartz and Bill Adair -- Hearing voices: sharing authority through oral history. Thought piece: From A shared authority to the digital kitchen, and back / Michael Frisch -- Case study: Make yourself at home--welcoming voices in Open house: if these walls could talk / Benjamin Filene -- Case study: The black bottom: making community-based performance in West Philadelphia / Billy Yalowitz, graphic art by Pete Stathis -- Case study: Listening intently: can StoryCorps teach museums how to win the hearts of new audiences? / Benjamin Filene -- The question of evaluation: understanding the visitors' response. Public curation: form trend to research-based practice / Tom Satwicz and Kris Morrissey
• Constructing perspectives: artists and historical authority. Thought piece: Peering behind the curtain: artists and questioning historical authority / Melissa Rachleff -- Conversation: Mining the museum revisited: a conversation / Fred Wilson, Paula Marincola, and Marjorie Schwarzer -- Case study: "The fever dream of the amateur historian": Ben Katchor's The Rosenbach company: a tragicomedy / Melissa Rachleff -- Case study: Embracing the unexpected: artists in resdience at the American Philosophical Society Museum / Laura Koloski -- Art piece: Sanford and sun / Otabenga Jones -- Case study: A London travelogue: visiting Dennis Severs' house / Mary Teeling.

ISBN

• 9780983480303 (pbk.)
• 0983480303 (pbk.)
• 9781611327908 (electronic) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2011935405

OCLC

• 758521080
• SCSB-11065380

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library