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An Experiment in Online Publishing and Discourse

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Museums & #BlackLivesMatter

Museums & #BlackLivesMatter

Aleia Brown — @aleiabrown Adrianne Russell — @adriannerussell ¶ In the early nineteenth century, a small population of free people of…
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Adrianne RussellSep 20, 2015
Changing Museums

Changing Museums

In a perpetual beta world, museums must re-assess how they plan and manage change ¶ When I first began work in the museum world, back in…
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Janet CardingSep 8, 2015

Wanna play?

Building bridges between open museum content and digital learning in public schoolsFoundations of an open playground ¶ My daughter is a 3rd grader in the Danish public school. She and her classmates are surrounded by digital technologies. They learn about the world and how it works on tablets, smartboards, and through interactive software. Being a curator in a museum with an amazing collection of artworks and knowledge, I dream of all the things she and her friends could be doing, learning and making with our collections.
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Merete SanderhoffJan 29, 2015
FactMiners’ Fact Cloud & Witmore’s Text as Massively Addressable Object

FactMiners’ Fact Cloud & Witmore’s Text as Massively Addressable Object

How Rainman and Sherlock Collaborate to Open New Avenues of Inquiry in the Digital Humanities
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Jim SalmonsApr 9, 2015
Towards the sociocratic museum

Towards the sociocratic museum

How, and why, museums could radically change, and how digital can help
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bridgetmckJan 13, 2015
Change

Change

The Internet is open, social, peer-to-peer and read-write, but museums aren’t — yet! Nick Poole responds to Mike Edson’s “Dark Matter”
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Nicholas PooleNov 25, 2014
The Moon Belongs to Everyone: Embracing a Digital Mindset in Museums

The Moon Belongs to Everyone: Embracing a Digital Mindset in Museums

To respond to the Internet culture that has taken root in our audiences, museums must explore more than just technology itself.
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Mike MurawskiOct 23, 2014
The Virtues of Promiscuity

The Virtues of Promiscuity

or, Why giving it away is the future
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Ed RodleyJul 7, 2014
Love you, love you not.

Love you, love you not.

We may adore museums but this relationship have been quite problematic since the past century. Here’s some good news about how technology is playing a big part in the current romance.
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Luis Marcelo MendesJun 23, 2014
Museums… So What?

Museums… So What?

In August last year, the ethicist and contemporary philosopher Peter Singer wrote an op-ed piece for the New York Times that struck a nerve…
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rjsteinJun 4, 2014
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CODE | WORDS: Technology and theory in the museum

CODE | WORDS: Technology and theory in the museum

An experiment in online publishing and discourse ¶ Now for your reading pleasure, the CODE | WORDS project is available in print form.
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rjsteinMay 9, 2014
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