‘Engaging Visitors Through Play’– the Museums Computer Group in Belfast
Last week I was in Belfast for the Museum Computer Group‘s Spring event, ‘Engaging Visitors Through Play’, fabulously organised by Alan Hook (Lecturer, University of Ulster) and Oonagh Murphy (MCG...
View ArticleDHOxSS: ‘From broadcast to collaboration: the challenges of public engagement...
I’m just back from giving at a lightning talk for the Cultural Connections strand of the Digital.Humanities@Oxford Summer School 2013, and since the projector wasn’t working to show my examples during...
View ArticleWorking out what we’re doing: day one of One Week, One Tool
Hard at work in The Well I’m sitting in a hotel next to the George Mason University’s Fairfax campus with a bunch of people I (mostly) met last night trying to work out what tool we’ll spend the rest...
View Article2013 in review: crowdsourcing, digital history, visualisation, and lots and...
A quick and incomplete summary of my 2013 for those days when I wonder where the year went… My PhD was my main priority throughout the year, but the slow increase in word count across my thesis is...
View ArticleEarly PhD findings: Exploring historians’ resistance to crowdsourced resources
I wrote up some early findings from my PhD research for conferences back in 2012 when I was working on questions around ‘but will historians really use resources created by unknown members of the...
View ArticleSharing is caring keynote ‘Enriching cultural heritage collections through a...
Enriching cultural heritage collections through a Participatory Commons platform: a provocation about collaborating with users Mia Ridge, Open University Contact me: @mia_out or http://miaridge.com/ [I...
View ArticleThese are a few of my favourite (audience research) things
On Friday I popped into London to give a talk at the Art of Digital meetup at the Photographer’s Gallery. It’s a great series of events organised by Caroline Heron and Jo Healy, so go along sometime if...
View ArticleIt’s here! Crowdsourcing our Cultural Heritage is now available
My edited volume, Crowdsourcing our Cultural Heritage, is now available! My introduction (Crowdsourcing our cultural heritage: Introduction), which provides an overview of the field and outlines the...
View ArticleLooking for (crowdsourcing) love in all the right places
One of the most important exercises in the crowdsourcing workshops I run is the ‘speed dating’ session. The idea is to spend some time looking at a bunch of crowdsourcing projects until you find a...
View ArticleA New Year’s resolution for start-ups, PRs and journalists writing about museums
Dear journalists, start-ups, agencies and PR folk, I get that you want to talk about how amazing some new app, product or company is, but can you please do so without resorting to lazy, outdated...
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