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SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Originally posted in April of 2011, just before I hung up my consulting hat for my current job at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. In 2008 and 2009, there were many conference sessions and and documents presenting participatory case studies, most notably Wendy Pollock and Kathy McLean''s book Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions.

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APRIL 25, 2011

I've seen this line of questioning almost completely disappear in the past two years due to many research studies and reports on the value and rise of participation, but in 2006-7, social media and participatory culture was still seen as nascent (and possibly a passing fad). In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what."

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OCTOBER 26, 2009

Yesterday, I visited the Experimentarium , a science center just north of Copenhagen in Denmark. When you augment a photo in the Chicago History Museum's Get Lincolnized! Exhibits that produce content that goes to social websites like YouTube or Flickr are automatically presented in relation to other visitors' productions.

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