Join the H2020 European Training Network POEM on 27th March at the Univesity of Glasgow to hear a public talk by Dr. Jenny Kidd who will discuss the value of participatory media practices.
DATE March 27th 2019 (09:30 - 10:30)
VENUE: Kelvin Hall, Lecture Theatre (1445, Argyle Street Glasgow, United Kingdom )
REGISTER on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/valuing-participatory-memory-practices-tickets-57082892468?aff=ebapi
This event is free to attend!
ABOUT THE PUBLIC TALK:
Memory institutions now employ a range of participatory media practices in order to engage different communities with their collections and events. They engage through the playful – yet fraught – ‘searchable talk’ (Zappavigna 2015) of the social web, they invite the sharing of visitors’ social photographs, and they produce increasingly intricate interactions through immersive heritage experiences. In this talk I will explore how we might articulate these interventions as practices of memory, and what is at stake in our doing so. I will introduce a number of projects, and in reflection on these, consider how we might engage more intentionally – and productively – with the potentials of participatory digital practice in the future.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Dr. Jenny Kidd is Senior Lecturer in the School of Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University. Jenny researches in the field of digital culture, in particular, exploring the potentials of immersive and participatory media. Jenny works in collaboration with partners in the cultural sector, including most recently with Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales on Traces [hyperlink: https://museum.wales/stfagans/whatson/traces].
Jenny has published widely on the above themes in, for example, the Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, the International Journal of Heritage Studies, and Information, Technology and People. She is co-author (with Alke Gröppel-Wegener) of Critical Encounters with Immersive Storytelling, 2019 https://www.routledge.com/Critical-Encounters-with-Immersive-Storytelling-1st-Edition/Groppel-Wegener-Kidd/p/book/9780367151621 and author of Museums in the New Mediascape: Transmedia, Participation, Ethics, 2014 https://www.routledge.com/Museums-in-the-New-Mediascape-Transmedia-Participation-Ethics/Kidd/p/book/9781138708884.
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