- Title Pages
- Series Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
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1 Rise and Fall of the Post-Photographic Museum: Technology and the Transformation of Art -
2 The Materiality of Virtual Technologies: A New Approach to Thinking about the Impact of Multimedia in Museums -
3 Beyond the Cult of the Replicant: Museums and Historical Digital Objects—Traditional Concerns, New Discourses -
4 Te Ahua Hiko: Digital Cultural Heritage and Indigenous Objects, People, and Environments -
5 Redefining Digital Art: Disrupting Borders -
6 Online Activity and Offline Community: Cultural Institutions and New Media Art -
7 A Crisis of Authority: New Lamps for Old -
8 Digital Cultural Communication: Audience and Remediation -
9 Digital Knowledgescapes: Cultural, Theoretical, Practical, and Usage Issues Facing Museum Collection Databases in a Digital Epoch -
10 Art Is Redeemed, Mystery Is Gone: The Documentation of Contemporary Art -
11 Cultural Information Standards—Political Territory and Rich Rewards -
12 Finding a Future for Digital Cultural Heritage Resources Using Contextual Information Frameworks -
13 Engaged Dialogism in Virtual Space: An Exploration of Research Strategies for Virtual Museums -
14 Localized, Personalized, and Constructivist: A Space for Online Museum Learning -
15 Speaking in Rama: Panoramic Vision in Cultural Heritage Visualization -
16 Dialing Up the Past -
17 The Morphology of Space in Virtual Heritage -
18 Toward Tangible Virtualities: Tangialities -
19 Ecological Cybernetics, Virtual Reality, and Virtual Heritage -
20 Geo-Storytelling: A Living Archive of Spatial Culture -
21 Urban Heritage Representations in Hyperdocuments -
22 Automatic Archaeology: Bridging the Gap between Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence, and Archaeology - Contributors
- Index
A Crisis of Authority: New Lamps for Old
A Crisis of Authority: New Lamps for Old
- Chapter:
- (p.132) (p.133) 7 A Crisis of Authority: New Lamps for Old
- Source:
- Theorizing Digital Cultural Heritage
- Author(s):
Susan Hazan
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
This chapter examines the role of digital media in museums and how it alters the relationship between museums and their audiences in terms of knowledge. Museums traditionally owned an ideological expert system that was once considered the primary authority on the knowledge systems they manage. Today, however, museum audiences may avail themselves of such knowledge through new media and other online resources. There have also been challenges to the educational goals and social responsibilities that have long been associated with the insular institution of the museum. The chapter outlines the various adjustments that museums are making, and are required to make, as they face a crisis of authority. It argues that new media applications integrated into museum practice are not intended to displace or distract from the museum mission, or to collect, display, and interpret the material collections for the visitor. Rather, they are designed to enhance and extend the museum mandate in novel ways.
Keywords: digital media, museums, new media, knowledge, authority, online resources
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- Title Pages
- Series Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
-
1 Rise and Fall of the Post-Photographic Museum: Technology and the Transformation of Art -
2 The Materiality of Virtual Technologies: A New Approach to Thinking about the Impact of Multimedia in Museums -
3 Beyond the Cult of the Replicant: Museums and Historical Digital Objects—Traditional Concerns, New Discourses -
4 Te Ahua Hiko: Digital Cultural Heritage and Indigenous Objects, People, and Environments -
5 Redefining Digital Art: Disrupting Borders -
6 Online Activity and Offline Community: Cultural Institutions and New Media Art -
7 A Crisis of Authority: New Lamps for Old -
8 Digital Cultural Communication: Audience and Remediation -
9 Digital Knowledgescapes: Cultural, Theoretical, Practical, and Usage Issues Facing Museum Collection Databases in a Digital Epoch -
10 Art Is Redeemed, Mystery Is Gone: The Documentation of Contemporary Art -
11 Cultural Information Standards—Political Territory and Rich Rewards -
12 Finding a Future for Digital Cultural Heritage Resources Using Contextual Information Frameworks -
13 Engaged Dialogism in Virtual Space: An Exploration of Research Strategies for Virtual Museums -
14 Localized, Personalized, and Constructivist: A Space for Online Museum Learning -
15 Speaking in Rama: Panoramic Vision in Cultural Heritage Visualization -
16 Dialing Up the Past -
17 The Morphology of Space in Virtual Heritage -
18 Toward Tangible Virtualities: Tangialities -
19 Ecological Cybernetics, Virtual Reality, and Virtual Heritage -
20 Geo-Storytelling: A Living Archive of Spatial Culture -
21 Urban Heritage Representations in Hyperdocuments -
22 Automatic Archaeology: Bridging the Gap between Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence, and Archaeology - Contributors
- Index
