This week the class decided to explore the idea of social media and the ways that museums, libraries, archives and other heritage repositories make contact with various publics.
Readings
- Dilenschneider, “How Museums Can Use Social Media to Engage Different Types of Learner,” Know Your Own Bone (Dec 15 2010)
- Gendreau, “Museums and Media: A View from Canada, Public Historian 31, no. 1 (Winter 2009): 35-45. (Gated resource: JSTOR)
- MacDougall, “Convention of Cranks: Why the Nineteenth Century’s Golden Age of Pseudoscience May Be a Precursor of Our Own,” Scope (Spring 2011)
- Macmanus, “Social Media Case Study: Brooklyn Museum,” ReadWriteWeb (Sep 5 2011)
- Preston, “Speaking Digitally About Exhibits,” New York Times (Mar 16 2011)
- Visser, “Timing is Everything – When Do People Consume Your Museum’s New Media Activities?” The Museum of the Future (Dec 3 2010)
- Weisberg, “Fast Company: The Women of Twitter,” Vogue (Feb 12 2012)
- Weitz, “How Museums Have Evolved in the ‘Second Museum Age’” and “Museums Working to Include Indigenous Voice in Exhibits” (Mar 31 2011)
- Wong, “Ethical Issues of Social Media in Museums: A Case Study,” Museum Management and Curatorship 26, no 2 (May 2011): 97-112. (Gated resource: doi: 10.1080/09647775.2011.566710)
Examples to Consider
- Commonwealth War Graves Commission (Facebook | Twitter | Vimeo | Flickr)
- College Humor: Facebook History of the 1980s and Overstreet, “If Historical Events Had Facebook Statuses,” CoolMaterial.com
- Fort Edmonton Parks
- Museum of Scotland Social Media Workshop
- Museums in Social Media: The Whole List
- War of 1812
William J Turkel 