Museums and Digital Confidence

Museums and Digital Confidence explores the evolving nature of digital practices in museums. It interrogates the skills, literacies, and mindsets that can support the use of digital technologies within these institutions.

Autorentext

Ross Parry is Professor of Museum Technology and founding director of the Institute for Digital Culture, University of Leicester, United Kingdom.

Vince Dziekan is a senior academic and practitioner-researcher at Monash Art Design and Architecture (MADA), Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, and an honorary research fellow with the Institute for Digital Culture, University of Leicester, United Kingdom.

Karin de Wild is Assistant Professor in Contemporary Museum and Collection Studies at Leiden University, the Netherlands.

Klappentext

Museums and Digital Confidence explores the evolving nature of digital practices in museums. It interrogates the skills, literacies, and mindsets that can support the use of digital technologies within these institutions.

Inhalt

SECTION I Organisation; 1. Contextual, Holistic, and Purposeful: A Re-framing of Digital Skills for Museums; 2. How to lead in a digitally distributed museum; 3. Digital Labour is 'Emotional Labour'; SECTION II Collection; 4. Knowledge and skills for digital curation; 5. The Paths to Digital Transformation; 6. Can we be confident about heritage and humanities data?; SECTION III Interface; 7. Whose Production House of Culture? Re-examining curatorial practice in the distributed museum; 8. Curatorial Confidence: Balancing caring for the needs of artworks and the needs of audiences in our time of digital technology overload; 9. Postdigitality and Museum Confidences: Reflecting upon Jaad Kuujus's Wrapped in the Cloud