New Literacy, New Audiences Publications

Look who's talking

Publication date: 
1 June 2007

Major museums worldwide are starting to use social media such as blogs, podcasts and online video to encourage users to participate in their programs.

Digital cultural communication: audience and remediation

Publication date: 
12 May 2007

This book chapter was published in Theorizing digital cultural heritage: a critical discourse, edited by Fiona Cameron and Sarah Kenderdine, MIT press, 2007.

Cultural institutions, co-creativity and communities of interest

Publication date: 
11 April 2007

Despite the proliferation of web-based news and information services, there remains a lack of online destinations from which to obtain reliable and authoritative cultural knowledge. In many countries, such knowledge is provided by cultural institutions such as museums and libraries. Recent discussion suggests that social media – including blogs, wikis and digital stories – may provide a creative solution to the ongoing interaction between cultural institutions and communities of interest.

The 'next' museum wave: is social media here to stay?

Authors: 
Angelina Russo
Publication date: 
10 March 2007

Collections, audiences, distribution and access will continue to be the central concerns, writes ANGELINA RUSSO.

How will social media affect museum communication?

Authors: 
Angelina Russo, Jerry Watkins, Lynda Kelly and Sebastian Chan
Publication date: 
1 February 2007

Social media enable cultural participants to both explore images of themselves and distribute those images across broad online social networks.

New Literacies, New Audiences - 2007 conference papers

Publication date: 
1 January 2007

Watkins, J., (2007) ‘Social Media, Participatory Design and Cultural Engagement’. OzCHI Conference, Adelaide, November 2007.

Watkins, J. and Russo, A., (2007) ‘Participatory Design and Co-creativity in Cultural Institutions’. Museums Australia Conference, Canberra, May 2007. http://www.museumsaustralia.org.au/

Watkins, J. and Russo, A., (2007) ‘Cultural Institutions, Co-creativity and Communities of Interest’, in Schuler, D. (ed.), Online Communities and Social Computing, HCII 2007, LNCS 4564, pp. 212–221.

Establishing and maintaining cultural e-communities

Publication date: 
28 April 2006

Issues of spatial distribution, allocation and access to resources prevail when establishing a long-term and viable e-community within the cultural sector.