Engaging the museum space: Mobilizing visitor engagement with digital content creation.

In recent years, public engagement is increasingly viewed as more than an 'additional extra' in academia. In the UK, it is becoming more common for research projects to embrace public engagement with the belief that it informs research, enhances teaching and learning, and increases research impact o...

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Publicado en:Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Vol. 32; no. 4; pp. 689 - 709
Autores principales: Bailey-Ross, Claire, Gray, Steven, Ashby, Jack, Terras, Melissa, Hudson-Smith, Andrew, Warwick, Claire
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Publicado: Oxford University Press / USA Dec2017
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          Department of English Studies, Durham University, Durham, UK
          The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London, London, UK
          Grant Museum of Zoology, University College London, London, UK
          Department of Information Studies, University College London, London, UK
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        Social participation
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