A History of Participation in Museums and Archives

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.

Autorentext

Per Hetland (PhD) is Professor at the Department of Education, University of Oslo, Norway. Hetland holds a Dr. Philos. in science communication from University of Oslo and a PhD in innovation studies from Roskilde University, Denmark. His current research is focused on natural history research museums and citizen science.

Palmyre Pierroux (PhD) is Professor at the Department of Education, University of Oslo, Norway. She leads the Cultural Heritage Mediascapes project, which examines how participatory democracy concepts and digital media and technologies are transforming knowledge and communication practices in the cultural heritage sector.

Line Esborg (PhD) is Associate Professor at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo, Norway. Esborg serves as Senior Advisor at the Norwegian Folklore Archives, and her research is centered on folklore, digital heritage, and the politics of identity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Klappentext

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.

Inhalt

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