Digital literacy, Inclusivity & Public Engagement

Keywords

• Folksonomy
• Responsiveness
• Contextualization
• Participatory Museum

Folksonomy

• A user-driven cataloging system that is constantly in flux.

Responsiveness

• The ability of a machine or system to adjust quickly to suddenly altered external conditions, as of speed, load, or temperature, and to resume stable operation without undue delay.
• Within participatory web work it refers to the ability to respond to user-actions i.e. tagging, commenting, searching, creating pins and links etc.
• Response is key to participatory web work. (see Adair p. 22).

Responsiveness

• The ability of a machine or system to adjust quickly to suddenly altered external conditions, as of speed, load, or temperature, and to resume stable operation without undue delay.
• Within participatory web work it refers to the ability to respond to user-actions i.e. tagging, commenting, searching, creating pins and links etc.
• Response is key to participatory web work. (see Adair p. 22).

Responsiveness

• Response is key to participatory web work. (see Adair p. 22).

Contextualization

• The process of assigning meaning as a means of interpreting the environment within which a text (in the broadest sense), action, or event is executed.

Participatory Museum

• A Site that encourages visitors to participate and then provides responsive value based on their actions.

Key Questions

• Who gets a say and how do their voices get heard?
• How can we embrace the full spectrum of participatory behavior or become comprehensively responsive?
• Can every site do everything or are there key elements of participatory behavior we can parse out and include in our projects?

What lies between Curation and Participation?

Developing Radical Trust

• Focus on the pre-argument or process behind the product
• Create transparency between you and your public
• Engage opinions and disassemble conventional archives
• Keep it simple and make it plain
• Qualify or contextualize your authority rather than assume that it speaks for itself (see Mangun).
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• Stimulate emotional resonance by emphasizing places, objects of memories and stories the whole community tells (Archibald).

Developing Radical Trust

• Qualify or contextualize your authority rather than assume that it speaks for itself (see Mangun).
• Stimulate emotional resonance by emphasizing places, objects of memories and stories the whole community tells (Archibald).

What sparked your passion for place and people? What artifacts have you held, what sites have you explored, what texts have you read that caused a profound physical reaction? (Mangun)

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