{"id":2964,"date":"2009-07-22T01:58:36","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T01:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=2964"},"modified":"2009-07-22T01:58:36","modified_gmt":"2009-07-22T01:58:36","slug":"museums-and-personal-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2009\/07\/22\/museums-and-personal-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Museums and personal research"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lynn Dierking, talking in the context of a July 2009 podcast discussion on museum visitor research<\/a> and how visitors might interface with online tools and personal online research…<\/p>\n

“the social media world is still very underused and unexplored by many museums — in fact there’s a tremendous fear<\/em> of them, and we’ve been visiting some institutions that are afraid they’re going to be critiqued by the public…”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“there’s also a tendency to think ‘we need interactive [exhibits<\/em>]’, but pretty much across the board, even talking to youth about it — they will talk about the fact that they sit at a computer all<\/em> the time, or that they can do that at home<\/em>…”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Although it seems that most don’t<\/em> do that at home. John Falk, in the same podcast…<\/p>\n

“what little data there is suggests that … despite the desire to drive people back to the web and other sources after a visit, it’s still pretty abysmal — less than ten per cent of the public are following up experiences [after visiting a museum<\/em>] by going back to the web.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fear is an interesting addition (one I’d not really considered before) to sloth and funding issues, in terms of the factors preventing the humanities from finding additional\/popular audiences online — and thus generating much-needed public support and understanding — during a time of crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lynn Dierking, talking in the context of a July 2009 podcast discussion on museum visitor research and how visitors might …<\/p>\n

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