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  • Museums and Digital Confidence

    Organisation, Collection, Interface

    Edited by Ross Parry, Vince Dziekan, Karin de Wild ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives on Museums and Digital Technology
    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. It also reflects on why digital adoption has faltered (at times), why digital continues to matter, and how the digital museum may flourish into the future.Underscored by national ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Museums and the History of Computing

    Objects, Narratives and Practice

    Edited by Simone Natale, Petrina Foti, Ross Parry ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives on Museums and Digital Technology
    Museums and the History of Computing examines the critical role that cultural organizations, such as museums and galleries, play in shaping ‘digital heritage’: the cultural heritage surrounding computer technology.Focusing on digital technologies as objects and practices that museums collect, exhibit, and preserve for the future, this book highlights how and why museums play a crucial role in ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Museum Thresholds

    The Design and Media of Arrival

    Edited by Ross Parry, Ruth Page, Alex Moseley ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Museum Studies
    Museum Thresholds is a progressive, interdisciplinary volume and the first to explore the importance and potential of entrance spaces for visitor experience. Bringing together an international collection of writers from different disciplines, the chapters in this volume offer different theoretical perspectives on the nature of engagement, interaction and immersion in threshold spaces, and the ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Museums in a Digital Age

    Edited by Ross Parry ...
    Series series Leicester Readers in Museum Studies
    The influence of digital media on the cultural heritage sector has been pervasive and profound. Today museums are reliant on new technology to manage their collections. They collect digital as well as material things. New media is embedded within their exhibition spaces. And their activity online is as important as their physical presence on site.However, ‘digital heritage’ (as an area of practice ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Recoding the Museum

    Digital Heritage and the Technologies of Change

    by Ross Parry ...
    Series series Museum Meanings
    Why has it taken so long to make computers work for the museum sector?And why are museums still having some of the same conversations about digital technology that they began back in the late 1960s?Does there continue to be a basic ‘incompatibility’ between the practice of the museum and the functions of the computer that explains this disconnect?Drawing upon an impressive range of professional ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Museums, Media and Communication

    Edited by Kirsten Drotner, Vince Dziekan, Ross Parry, Kim Christian Schrøder ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    Museums today find themselves within a mediatised society, where everyday life is conducted in a data-full and technology-rich context. In fact, museums are themselves mediatised: they present a uniquely media-centred environment, in which communicative media is a constitutive property of their organisation and of the visitor experience. The Routledge Handbook of Museums, Media and Communication ... Read more

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  • The Engaging Museum

    Developing Museums for Visitor Involvement

    by Graham Black ...
    Series series Heritage: Care-Preservation-Management
    This very practical book guides museums on how to create the highest quality experience possible for their visitors. Creating an environment that supports visitor engagement with collections means examining every stage of the visit, from the initial impetus to go to a particular institution, to front-of-house management, interpretive approach and qualitative analysis afterwards.This holistic ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Heritage and Social Media

    Understanding heritage in a participatory culture

    Edited by Elisa Giaccardi ...
    Heritage and Social Media explores how social media reframes our understanding and experience of heritage. Through the idea of ‘participatory culture’ the book begins to examine how social media can be brought to bear on the encounter with heritage and on the socially produced meanings and values that individuals and communities ascribe to it.To highlight the specific changes produced by social ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Transforming Museums in the Twenty-first Century

    by Graham Black ...
    In his book, Graham Black argues that museums must transform themselves if they are to remain relevant to 21st century audiences – and this root and branch change would be necessary whether or not museums faced a funding crisis. It is the result of the impact of new technologies and the rapid societal developments that we are all a part of, and applies not just to museums but to all arts bodies ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Urban Sustainability Through Environmental Design

    Approaches to Time-People-Place Responsive Urban Spaces

    Edited by Kevin Thwaites, Sergio Porta, Ombretta Romice, Mark Greaves ...
    What can architects, landscape architects and urban designers do to make urban open spaces, streets and squares, more responsive, lively and safe?Urban Sustainability through Environmental Design answers this question by providing the analytical tools and practical methodologies that can be employed for sustainable solutions to the design and management of urban environments. The book calls into ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Museums and Higher Education Working Together

    Challenges and Opportunities

    by Jos Boys ...
    Over the last twenty years the educational role of the museum has come to be central to its mission. There are now far more educational opportunities, new spaces, new interfaces - both digital and physical, and a growing number of education and interpretation departments, educational curators and public engagement programmes. Despite these developments, however, higher education has remained a ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • The Culture of Design

    by Guy Julier ...
    What is the social impact of design? How do culture and economics shape the objects and spaces we take for granted? How do design objects, designers, producers and consumers interrelate to create experience? How do new networks of communication and technology change the design process? Thoroughly revised, this new edition:explores the iPhonedigs deep into the digital with a new chapter on networks ... Read more

    $78.29 USD