Archaeology and Digital Communication
Towards Strategies of Public Engagement
Edited by Chiara Bonacchi
Paperback (Published)
(April 2012)
ISBN: 9781904982777
7.44 x 9.69 inches
Price: $55.00
In stock
An exploration of how digital media—social platforms, video, games, and more—can enhance public engagement with archaeology. Through case studies, the volume highlights effective strategies for designing and delivering digital experiences, emphasizing collaboration with media professionals and institutions.
Archaeologists now face a myriad of digital ways of engaging with the public social media, online TV channels, games, etc. It is critical that this potential and its limitations are closely assessed and utilised to make archaeology a genuinely public activity. Archaeology and Digital Communication examines how archaeology engages the public in the rapidly changing world of communication. This volume proposes digital strategies of public engagement that will be of interest to archaeologists working in various contexts, particularly in collaboration with media professionals and institutions. It identifies some of the most promising uses of digital media in different domains of archaeological communication and the benefits they can generate for participants. Each use is presented through case studies highlighting how media experiences are designed and consumed. While providing specific operational recommendations, Archaeology and Digital Communication also attempts to chart potential new directions for research.
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Don Henson, Tim Schadla-Hall
Introduction
Chiara Bonacchi
Value, authority and the open society: some implications for digital and online archaeology
Andrew Bevan
Twitter and archaeology: an archaeological network in 140 characters or less
Lorna Richardson
Wessex Archaeology and the web: Amesbury Archer to Archaeocast
Tom Goskar
Strategy games and engagement strategies
Andrew Gardner
Public engagement through online TV channels: a way forward for the audiovisual communication of archaeology?
Chiara Bonacchi, Charles Furneaux, Daniel Pett
Smartphones and site interpretation: the Museum of London’s Streetmuseum applications
Meriel Jeater
Uses of social media within the British Museum and museum sector
Daniel Pett
Wikipedia and blogs: new fields for archaeological research?
Amara Thornton
A call for open scholarship in archaeology
Brian Hole
Conclusions
Daniel Pett, Chiara Bonacchi
Plates
- Edited by Chiara Bonacchi
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