A history of participation in museums and archives : : traversing citizen science and citizen humanities / / edited by Per Hetland, Palmyre Pierroux and Line Esborg.

• TeilnehmendeR: Hetland, Per,; Pierroux, Palmyre,; Esborg, Line,
• Place / Publishing House: Abingdon, Oxon : : Taylor & Francis,, [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (vi, 302 pages) :; illustrations

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. Drawing on perspectives in cultural...

Table of Contents

• 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 ethicsDivides
• 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.