Questions, questions
My head is full of questions today. On the one hand, I need to get some front end evaluation data on young people and mobile gaming together, in just a month, so I’m composing an online survey about...
View ArticleThe Invisible Hand – part 2
I promised more on the Blast Theory workshop I attended a couple of weeks back, and here it is. The two days were kicked off by Matt Adams of Blast Theory explaining why they’d titled the event with a...
View ArticleInternational, interdisciplinary and “on the move”
Today, I’ve been at Southampton University’s interdisciplinary week, for a session on the World University Network, of which, Southampton is a part. WUN sponsors my trip last year to the the US to...
View Article(dis-)Connected Life?
Last week I attended Connected Life, a one day conference at Balliol College Oxford, the home of the Oxford Internet Institute. Manchester Poly was never like this! #CL14 pic.twitter.com/K3NK51ZPgr —...
View ArticleOn ello
Not much new today, as I’m catching up on the Portus MOOC (final week complete, but I’ve left a ton of gaps in weeks 2, 3, 4 and 5) and trying to lay down few thousand words of literature review (yeah,...
View ArticleParticipate in research and (maybe) win!
Fleur Schinning is currently writing her master’s thesis as a part of her specialisation in Heritage Management at Leiden University in the Netherlands. Her research focuses on the use of blogs and...
View ArticleHeritage: The Terror Management Industry?
Shiva as Nataraja – image from the Glasgow Life website, click to visit the page of St. Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art A couple of weeks ago, Mark O’Neill, late of Glasgow Museums (and now of...
View ArticleCultureGeek 2017 and Digital Customer Experiences
Better late than never, its a month since I went to two events in one week, and I’ve been so busy since then that I haven’t had time to write them up. Those of you who were following my Twitter stream...
View ArticleAre we all cyborgs? Digital media and social networking
Continuing with my reading of Staiff’s Re-imagining Heritage Interpretation, I come to his chapter on digital media and social networking. He wastes little time on those who “persist wit the idea that...
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