Comments on: Social Media and Social History http://openculture.collectionstrustblogs.org.uk/2009/07/13/social-media-social-history/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:47:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Angelina Russo http://openculture.collectionstrustblogs.org.uk/2009/07/13/social-media-social-history/#comment-3851 Angelina Russo Tue, 28 Jul 2009 04:37:47 +0000 http://openculture.collectionstrustblogs.org.uk/?p=105#comment-3851 Hi Nick Thanks for your response to the Cultural Change posting. I've republished at www.museum30.ning.com where the conversation continues! Cheers Hi Nick
Thanks for your response to the Cultural Change posting. I’ve republished at http://www.museum30.ning.com where the conversation continues!
Cheers

]]> By: Angelina Russo http://openculture.collectionstrustblogs.org.uk/2009/07/13/social-media-social-history/#comment-3850 Angelina Russo Sun, 26 Jul 2009 02:52:51 +0000 http://openculture.collectionstrustblogs.org.uk/?p=105#comment-3850 Thanks for the posting Nic. I'm interested in the response to the talk as you raise many interesting and vital points. I like the idea of citizen curator. More than ten years ago we tried valiantly to come to terms with the notion of virtual curator but in truth, the technology just wasn't up to it and the infrastructure required was costly, difficult to build and often faded away... Today we have the aggregators, search engines and digital content to revisit this notion and consider the citizen curator as a viable and important addition to the cultural program. Even so, I wonder whether the five points you make still sound alittle one way. Perhaps we need to consider: They’re our collections Many voices are critical to the interpretation of culture We will attempt to go where participation takes us. We will provide the platform for Culture, the training and advocacy to support it and we would like to work together to construct the content. It is a different dialogue and one which will take time to be assimilated in our institutions. Until we have significant impetus to do so (and economic difficulty may be that impetus) then I fear that the first wave of social media will become a fond memory and one which is increasingly seen as secondary to curatorial practice. I wrote a post about agents of cultural change at http://digitalheritage.wordpress.com/ to try and address some of these issues. I would be interested in your comments. Thanks for the posting Nic. I’m interested in the response to the talk as you raise many interesting and vital points. I like the idea of citizen curator. More than ten years ago we tried valiantly to come to terms with the notion of virtual curator but in truth, the technology just wasn’t up to it and the infrastructure required was costly, difficult to build and often faded away…
Today we have the aggregators, search engines and digital content to revisit this notion and consider the citizen curator as a viable and important addition to the cultural program. Even so, I wonder whether the five points you make still sound alittle one way. Perhaps we need to consider:
They’re our collections
Many voices are critical to the interpretation of culture
We will attempt to go where participation takes us.
We will provide the platform for Culture, the training and advocacy to support it and we would like to work together to construct the content.
It is a different dialogue and one which will take time to be assimilated in our institutions. Until we have significant impetus to do so (and economic difficulty may be that impetus) then I fear that the first wave of social media will become a fond memory and one which is increasingly seen as secondary to curatorial practice.
I wrote a post about agents of cultural change at http://digitalheritage.wordpress.com/ to try and address some of these issues. I would be interested in your comments.

]]> By: Web Media Daily – July 24, 2009 http://openculture.collectionstrustblogs.org.uk/2009/07/13/social-media-social-history/#comment-3849 Web Media Daily – July 24, 2009 Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:42:33 +0000 http://openculture.collectionstrustblogs.org.uk/?p=105#comment-3849 [...] Social Media and Social History…   Open Culture [...] [...] Social Media and Social History…   Open Culture [...]

]]> By: Stephen Lowy http://openculture.collectionstrustblogs.org.uk/2009/07/13/social-media-social-history/#comment-3832 Stephen Lowy Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:53:48 +0000 http://openculture.collectionstrustblogs.org.uk/?p=105#comment-3832 As a member of the audience that saturday morning it was interesting to hear the presepctive fro the cutting edge of new technology. The conference was partcularly interested in the role of social history curators (and museums) and how they dealt with the increasing demand for the the user to become active particpant. Although that debate began within SHCG in 1982! Museum curator as communicator and agents of empowerment seemed to be the consensual answer and new technology is just another tool to the SHCGer. It might seem very confident but SHCG advocates feel new technology is not a game changer, merely another way of getting the ball in the net (too many sporting metaphors). 20 years ago it was Peoples' shows and workers lives on video! As an aside Nick's comment about local government IT managers did raise a roar of approval. At the moment I am sitting at a desktop that has its sound card disabled with limited access to the USB port. Having said that we lhae links/and use Flickr and facebook for work with apparent acquiscence from the powers that be and our IT guys has his own blog on the council intranet. As a member of the audience that saturday morning it was interesting to hear the presepctive fro the cutting edge of new technology. The conference was partcularly interested in the role of social history curators (and museums) and how they dealt with the increasing demand for the the user to become active particpant. Although that debate began within SHCG in 1982!

Museum curator as communicator and agents of empowerment seemed to be the consensual answer and new technology is just another tool to the SHCGer. It might seem very confident but SHCG advocates feel new technology is not a game changer, merely another way of getting the ball in the net (too many sporting metaphors). 20 years ago it was Peoples’ shows and workers lives on video!

As an aside Nick’s comment about local government IT managers did raise a roar of approval. At the moment I am sitting at a desktop that has its sound card disabled with limited access to the USB port. Having said that we lhae links/and use Flickr and facebook for work with apparent acquiscence from the powers that be and our IT guys has his own blog on the council intranet.

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