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DESCRIPTION:Robert Stein will be coming to speak at the New Media Seminar o
 n Wednesday\, February 22\, 2012.  His talk is entitled “Conversation and 
 Collaboration: Strategies to Cultivate Meaningful Engagement with Cultural
  Audiences.”As museums and cultural organizations seek to enhance their re
 levance within a rapidly changing society\, issues of participatory cultur
 e and engagement are becoming more and more critical. The debate about how
  best to build deep connections for visitors with cultural content is an i
 mportant one\, but concrete evidence and replicable findings about the val
 ue and methods for doing so are often hard to come by. Are the views and o
 pinions of the general public an important part of the mission for cultura
 l organizations\, or just a societal fad that will pass? What is the respo
 nsibility of public institutions to serve and preserve the impressions of 
 their local audiences? Does public opinion hold its value in relationship 
 to the factual and contextual content provided by more traditional content
  authorities? For those institutions that are eager to embrace a participa
 tory culture\, how can they know whether or not they are being successful?
  What does that success look like\, and why is it important?This session w
 ill focus on the underpinning logic and assumptions implicit in a decision
  by the Indianapolis Museum of Art that such participation and engagement 
 with audiences is an important part of the museum’s mission. Results from 
 several research studies and collaborations with other leading cultural in
 stitutions will be discussed. Current work to establish a formalized progr
 am of visitor study for the purpose of deepening visitor engagement will b
 e explained and the session will offer an opportunity for informal discuss
 ion of the challenges and opportunities involved in such a strategy.Robert
  Stein is currently Deputy Director for Research\, Technology\, and Engage
 ment at the Indianapolis Museum of Art\, where he has worked since 2006 to
  develop new technologies for research\, conservation\, and digital media 
 within the museum. He received his B.S. in Electrical and Computer Enginee
 ring from the University of Illinois and has received grants from the Inst
 itute for Museum and Library Services (2011)\, the Getty Foundation (2011)
 \, and the Ball Brothers Foundation (2010). His publications include artic
 les on “Crowd-Sourcing Art History: Research and Applications of Social Ta
 gging for Museums” in Research Infrastructures in the Digital Humanities (
 2011)\; “Mobile Content Strategies for Content Sharing and Long-Term Susta
 inability” in Mobile Apps for Museums: the AAM Guide to Planning and Strat
 egy (2011)\; and “Computational Linguistics in Museums: Applications for C
 ultural Datasets Read More: Computational Linguistics in Museums: Applicat
 ions for Cultural Datasets” in Museums and the Web 2011.Light refreshments
  will be served at 5:45 pm. The presentation will begin at 6:00 pm.RSVP is
  required. Please click on the registration link at the bottom of this pag
 e or contact academicevents@bgc.bard.edu.PLEASE NOTE that our Lecture Hall
  can only accommodate a limited number of people\, so please come early if
  you would like to have a seat in the main room.  We also have overflow se
 ating available\; all registrants who arrive late will be seated in the ov
 erflow area.
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