cultural institutions

Creating value: between commerce and commons conference papers

alawrence — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:00:41 +1000

The following papers, from the Creating Value Conference (hosted by CCI, 25 - 27 June 2008, Brisbane), have been peer reviewed as per HERDC Category E1 specifications.

Look who's talking

alawrence — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:05:05 +1000

Major museums worldwide are starting to use social media such as blogs, podcasts and online video to encourage users to participate in their programs.

New Literacy, New Audiences

Digital cultural communication: audience and remediation

alawrence — Tue, 13 May 2008 12:35:26 +1000

This book chapter was published in Theorizing digital cultural heritage: a critical discourse, edited by Fiona Cameron and Sarah Kenderdine, MIT press, 2007.

New Literacy, New Audiences

Cultural institutions, co-creativity and communities of interest

alawrence — Tue, 13 May 2008 12:49:32 +1000

Despite the proliferation of web-based news and information services, there remains a lack of online destinations from which to obtain reliable and authoritative cultural knowledge. In many countries, such knowledge is provided by cultural institutions such as museums and libraries. Recent discussion suggests that social media – including blogs, wikis and digital stories – may provide a creative solution to the ongoing interaction between cultural institutions and communities of interest.

New Literacy, New Audiences

How will social media affect museum communication?

alawrence — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 09:34:34 +1000

Social media enable cultural participants to both explore images of themselves and distribute those images across broad online social networks.

New Literacy, New Audiences

New Literacies, New Audiences - 2007 conference papers

alawrence — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:50:56 +1100

Watkins, J., (2007) ‘Social Media, Participatory Design and Cultural Engagement’. OzCHI Conference, Adelaide, November 2007.

Watkins, J. and Russo, A., (2007) ‘Participatory Design and Co-creativity in Cultural Institutions’. Museums Australia Conference, Canberra, May 2007. http://www.museumsaustralia.org.au/

Watkins, J. and Russo, A., (2007) ‘Cultural Institutions, Co-creativity and Communities of Interest’, in Schuler, D. (ed.), Online Communities and Social Computing, HCII 2007, LNCS 4564, pp. 212–221.

New Literacy, New Audiences

Enabling Technology for the Analysis of Electronic Cultural Archives - 2007 publications

alawrence — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:02:06 +1100

Pham B. and Smith, R., ‘Metadata Augmentation for Semantic- and Context-based Retrieval of Digital Cultural Objects’, DICTA 2007 – Conference on Digital Image Computing Techniques and Applications, Adelaide, 3-5 December 2007.

Smith, R., Pham, B. and Choudhury, S., ‘A Digital Artworks Expression Language (DAEL)’, 11th IASTED International Conference on Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, August 2007.

Enabling Technology for the Analysis of Electronic Cultural Archives

Establishing and maintaining cultural e-communities

alawrence — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 09:55:41 +1100

Issues of spatial distribution, allocation and access to resources prevail when establishing a long-term and viable e-community within the cultural sector.

New Literacy, New Audiences

New Literacy, New Audiences - 2006 conference papers

alawrence — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 09:26:30 +1000

New Literacy, New Audiences