Introduction: Sociology and Museums: Visitors, Policy, Knowledge

Does Twitter Help Museums Engage with Visitors?

Even though Twitter is a fairly new web 2.0 tool, U.S. museum leaders are extoling the platform as a necessary component to any online programming or presence in museums today. Because of the myriad ways museums can use the platform to perform educational, marketing, or engagement-focused programming research on U.S. museums and Twitter is generally very broad, and because of the newness of the...

Sociology in China, sociology of China: Editor’s introduction

Rethinking 1807: museums, knowledge and expertise

Examining the museological shaping of the bicentenary of the abolition of the British slave trade provides a means by which the role of museums in society can be reassessed. Through theories of governmentality this paper will study this relationship between institutions and the groups and communities they serve. The extent to which museums inculcate the dominant values of society into visitors ...

Introduction to Assessing climate models: knowledge, values and policy

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Across Education and Interaction: How TEL and WELL can serve museums and their visitors

Countless projects are being developed around the world to improve the experience of the public in cultural spaces. Institutions are interrogating themselves on how to embrace the current shift towards a more digitised approach, and how to appropriately reflect it in their offer to the public. The scenario becomes even more interesting when discovering how disciplines such as Technology Enhance...