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The eternal sunshine of the spotless museum collection

January 2, 2012

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The first provocative article I read in the new year was Should we erase painful memories?. The author, Alison Winter, interrogates the role that memory has in the creation of our selves, and how trauma can affect our personalities and experiences of life – and what it could mean for our private and social selves […]

“All your stories, all your apps, and a new way to express who you are” – Did Facebook just become a social history museum?

September 24, 2011

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Wow. So Facebook just took an interesting step into the memory market, didn’t it? In launching Facebook Timeline, Mark Zuckerberg made the statement “We think it’s an important next step to help tell the story of your life.” Fascinating. It’s not a massive surprise to see Facebook trying to stake out more territory in the […]

Narrative, sharing and memory

April 23, 2011

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I was reading an article yesterday about new media as it relates to news processes, but its lessons seem equally applicable to the online museum. Remembering through Sharing by Julia Sonnevend  addresses Sonnevend’s experiences and observations of entry into an online community engaged in commemorating the death of a film-maker who was brutally murder in […]

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A SERIES OF EPISTOLARY ROMANCES: CODE | WORDS 2.0

CODE│WORDS is an ongoing effort to gather and harness the discourse occurring among the museum technology community.

The 2nd experiment is called A Series of Epistolary Romances. It consists of exchanges between authors on topics of import.

––Interstitial Spaces in Museums by Bruce Wyman and Daniel Meyers
––Museum as Platform by Rachel Ropeik and John Gordy.
––Mindfulness, Intention, and Museums by Jeffrey Inscho and Beck Tench.
––Museums and Structural Change by nikhil trivedi and me.
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