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A Summary of Audience, Dialogue, and Co-Creation
In this past module I have learned concepts that will help me improve my final project in the upcoming weeks. For example, in the article, Creating a Dialogic Museum : The Chinatown History Museum Experiment by John Kuo Wei Tchen, I learned that it is not only important to know what the historical topics that you wish to show your audience but also how to engage and include them in the exhibit. Tchen discussed the importance of engaging the correct audience whether it’s Chinese New Yorkers, non-Chinese New Yorkers, East Side, Upper West Side, etc. To know your audience is to know how to engage them. Making it interactive will…
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User Research Findings
I am still trying to figure out what exactly my final project should be on and how I’m going to do it in terms of software. I do know that I would like to do some kind of historical reenactment game. Even though I’m smoothing out the rough edges of my final project ideas, this exercise of interviewing subjects was beneficial in my thought-process. I was able to interview two 20-somethings from the background of history and computer science/computer games to get their opinions about the two fields and why. Their responses proved valuable as I am now taking away comments that will help me build a better project. A…
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Physical/Digital Site Comparative Review: Ford’s Theatre
For this assignment I traveled to Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. and went to the Museum inside. I decided that this would be a good place to study for this project because of its historical content and fame but also what it’s digital presence is currently. The audience could be identified as persons wanting to know more historical background of Lincoln, his life, the Civil War, and his assassination, and death. They could very well be audience member who was able to have a free ticket to the museum with their purchase of a show performance and it is available to them one hour before the show starts. I was…
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Survey of the Field
The field of Digital Public History (DPH) has changed dramatically over the past twenty years. With the rise of the Internet and all the new technologies and software being developed, it has made the DPH field reevaluate how they are displaying their information to the public. Based on the activity of comparing digital exhibits from the late 1990s to 2014, one can see how the format and finding the right audience and has changed. The era of all text and reading page after page has become extinct and in favor of more interactive pages that the audience can get more excited about. The qualities that I believe should of markers…