Hello Evan,

You may already be aware of this book, but if not: "Letting Go? Sharing
Historical Authority in a User-generated World"  edited by Bill Adair and
Laura Koloski, 2011.






























On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 9:41 AM, Evan Smeenge <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> My name is Evan Smeenge and I am writing my dissertation on community
> social media engagement.
>
> I am trying to determine who has the authority to tell history. Oral
> history is taking stories, spoken through mouth, by a bi-standard or
> witness, in order to learn more about the life of a people or city. This
> helps a museum address the topic that they are focusing on. I am doing this
> on a bigger scale. I have hundreds of photos, and am trying to get the
> community engaged with the photos. The goal is to acquire stories about
> anything in order to have a ornate web of life in a certain part of the
> world (I am doing this in London). The photos will hopefully induce
> recollections of previous experiences, either close to what the photograph
> displays, or completely separate from the image local.
>
> I want to write a small part on authority. Do the groups that are on
> Facebook, that are filled with people just talking about memories, have
> authority in a museum or academic context?
>
> Find my project on Facebook and Flickr:
>
> https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1100855586597172.1073741847.326077084075030&type=3
>
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/kingstonheritageproject/
>
> And my blog on the project: I am looking for critiques on the process of
> this project, would love the help of anyone willing to give it -
> www.kingstonknows.weebly.com <http://kingstonknows.weebly.com/>
>
> Thank you very much for your time and help
>
>
> Evan Smeenge
> MA Museum and Gallery Studies
> Kingston University
> +44 074 7747 0848
> https://www.linkedin.com/in/evansmeenge
>
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