actors and academics
DESCRIPTION
What can we tell about actors and academics from the way they use museum artefacts? This talk describes a project - Digital CoPs and Robbers - that included individuals from these two communities of practice and examined how they interact with artefacts in physical and digital form. It suggests that the ways in which actors and academics use the artefact reveals different ways of seeing it.TRANSCRIPT
Actors & AcademicsDavid Hopes
Digital CoPs and Robbers: Communities of Practice and the
Transformation of Research
• Externalise
• Bottom-up
• Nomothetic
Main Findings:
1. CoPs exist
2. 3 general processes of use
3. Different patterns of use between CoPs
4. CoPs have distinct learning styles
5. Learning styles are mutable
identification gathering evidence
looking
looking more closely analysing detail
reading from the artefact
assessing materials
assessing condition
reading the label
looking from further away
viewing holistically
looking from different angles
touching handling
measuring
opening
thinking
question use
object types
reconciling with metadata
listening
smelling
tasting
digital
physical
0.00% 5.00% 10.00% 15.00% 20.00% 25.00%
6.00%
21.29%
1.80%
12.96%
ActorsAcademics
Identification of the Artefact Using Sight
Identification of the Artefact Using Touch
digital
physical
0.00% 1.00% 2.00% 3.00% 4.00% 5.00% 6.00% 7.00% 8.00%
1.01%
6.09%
1.20%
6.76%
ActorsAcademics
Identification of the Artefact Using Smell, Taste and Hearing
digital
physical
0.00% 0.20% 0.40% 0.60% 0.80% 1.00% 1.20% 1.40% 1.60% 1.80% 2.00%
0.00230000000000001
0
1.20%
1.81%
ActorsAcademics
Frames of Reference in the Contextualisation of Artefacts
CoP Physical Digital
Actors Actor (15%)Character (11%)Play (9%)Production (4%)Maker (2%)
41%
Actor (9%)Play (8%)Production (7%)Character (2%)Text (2%)
28%
Academics Character (2%)Production (2%)Actor (1%)Play (1%)Maker (0.2%)
6.2%
Character (4%)Play (3%)Text (2%)Production (1%)Actor (1%)Maker (0.2%)
11.2%
Actors & AcademicsDavid Hopes