tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33352276.post300090284783950097..comments2024-01-27T10:15:00.444+00:00Comments on The Attic: Brown Bag Seminar: Audience Appeal: Museums, technology and cultural policy in the 21st CenturyThe Attichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15418156698058196228noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33352276.post-47504441231046391282010-03-24T22:54:48.869+00:002010-03-24T22:54:48.869+00:00I really enjoyed the theory that emerged from Wend...I really enjoyed the theory that emerged from Wendy's talk - the engagement with philosophical issues so often gets lost in the notion of 'the public good'. <br /><br />One thing I thought was important, was how Wendy's presentation highlighted how we are still tentative, by and large, in the use of a technology which is changing and evolving so fast. We do not, understandably, feel secure on this ever shifting geography which we have to negotiate, and we do not always understand why we are doing what we do. Are we climbing the mountain in order to see the view, or because it is there? At this point, I don't want to give one approach any less credence than another, but I do think that we should at least be honest about which path we choose to take.Jennyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14543331768038360856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33352276.post-40555849980320008212010-03-24T20:41:30.248+00:002010-03-24T20:41:30.248+00:00I really enjoyed this talk, and found it refreshin...I really enjoyed this talk, and found it refreshing to hear Wendy think her way through her project with us. I think her point that museum websites are unfairly seen as a low-investment, high-outcome project is very true, and still has serious implications for institutional policy. In this day and age, a museum that doesn't have a website and doesn't make some effort to digitise its collections and/or exhibitions is really behind the times, but it cannot be an afterthought. I also found her point that museum websites are an extension of the social processes of a museum worthy food for thought, as I have really only ever heard them being discussed in IT terms, or social engineering terms, but of course they have connections to museological thinking as a whole.Dr Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03137076061031307574noreply@blogger.com