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 and Cultures). The School is now one of the largest (if not the largest) groups of students and academics in these areas […]
Social Media and Universities
posted by Kostas Arvanitis
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 article this year on “Social media data to be included in new World University Rankings indicator”, my eyebrows remained in their usual place. […]
Return to Blogging and Turn to Digital Humanities
posted by Kostas Arvanitis
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 the “-ings” that in the context of twitter are more about “keeping track of” (another “-ing”!) rather than taking the time to think, reflect, […]
Social Media as Contact Zone: Networked communities and art gallery communication
posted by Kostas Arvanitis
(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 social/participatory media and the production of associations and meanings around content of the Whitworth Art Gallery (WAG). Julian aims to investigate the processes for producing social […]
CHIMERA Launch
posted by Kostas Arvanitis
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 aims to bring together researchers working on cultural heritage, memory and identity from different disciplinary areas of the University of Manchester and beyond to develop cross-disciplinary research […]
Small Updates
posted by Kostas Arvanitis
‘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 ‘virtual curating’” project in Veria, Greece. This project focuses on archaeological sites that exist ‘out of sight’, beneath modern developments (usually blocks of flats). These archaeological remains […]
Agents of Cultural Change
posted by Kostas Arvanitis
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 number of transformations: – early shifts from single institution, building-bound collections to first generation online cultural networks: CHIN, CAN, The European Library – […]
Fieldtrip to Churchill Museum
posted by Michael Dyczkowski
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 and laboriously forge texts for the profit of the others and myself. In the […]
The River Song in a Winter Day
posted by Kostas Arvanitis
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!
Week 4: the changing role of a museum website
posted by lattaheri
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 Chapman, on the changing role of the museum website. What first struck me, when he showed […]
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