Online Dialogue and Cultural Practice: A Conversation
- By Kathy McHoes
- September 13, 2011
We’re excited to announce the upcoming release of Letting Go? Sharing Historical Authority in a User Generated World, a new publication from the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage that explores new ways for museums and cultural institutions to approach historical authenticity in the age of social media and online dialogue. The book features an in-depth interview of Matthew Fisher, President of Night Kitchen Interactive, by book editor Bill Adair, Director of the Heritage Philadelphia Program at the Pew.
Online Dialogue and Cultural Practice: A Conversation explores opportunities and challenges that institutions often confront when engaging in dialogue with their audiences. More than simply exploring a variety of approaches that organizations have taken to facilitating online dialogue, Fisher and Adair discuss the rationale behind adopting a more dialogic interpretative framework, particularly in online interpretative practice. They explore how dialogue has become increasingly central in public history projects as a means to foster transformative experiences. By exposing multiple viewpoints and allowing the public the opportunity to connect to history on a personal level, social media empowers us to share a more nuanced and richer understanding of our past. “That’s one of the really interesting things about social media projects,” Fisher states, “an exhibition doesn’t just have to end. An exhibition can continue to live, grow, evolve, stay green, and bring people back for multiple visits, because it continues to change with that public participation.”
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