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Small Updates
‘Curators in Residence’: Hidden archaeological sites and ‘virtual curating’ Since October I’ve been away on research leave working mainly on my “‘Curators in Residence’: Hidden archaeological sites and...
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CHIMERA Launch
On Thursday 18th March 2010 we are launching CHIMERA (Cultural Heritage, Identity and Memory Research Area). ‘We’ is Anthropology, Archaeology and Museology at the University of Manchester. CHIMERA...
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Social Media as Contact Zone: Networked communities and art gallery...
(diagram by Julian Hartley) Julian Hartley is a PhD student at the Centre for Museology, University of Manchester doing a practice-based PhD on the relation between people’s use of...
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Week 4: the changing role of a museum website
Hi everyone, Well I can’t believe it is already the end of week 5, so I thought it was about time (sorry for the delay) I posted my thoughts on last weeks lecture, kindly given to us by Malcolm...
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The River Song in a Winter Day
Nothing to do with museums or digital heritage; just wanted to share those videos by two friends back in my home city Trikala. Yannis is in the videos; Kostas is behind them. Great stuff guys!
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Fieldtrip to Churchill Museum
Hello everyone, and sorry for the delay. As you can see, instead of wasting time on a nice walk in the park and the first sunbathe of the year I am using the Eastern break to play catch up with writing...
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Agents of Cultural Change
by Angelina Russo* (Visiting Blogger) Who or what are the agents of cultural change for the cultural institution sector? Over the past 20 years, the communication of cultural materials has undergone a...
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Return to Blogging and Turn to Digital Humanities
It’s been a while since I’ve last blogged (a while means 3 odd years!). This coincided with me getting more consumed into twitter culture: following, tweeting, RTweeting, archiving, storifying and all...
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Social Media and Universities
The best April Fool’s jokes tend to raise eyebrows, but not to an extend that they (the jokes, not the eyebrows!) are not believable. Yet, when Times Higher Education published their April Fool’s...
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10 Principles in our Academic Web Practice
It’s been one year since the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures at the University of Manchester was formed out of the merge of two Schools (Arts, Histories and Cultures; and Languages, Linguistics...
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