VIRTUAL MUSEUMS – NON-FORMAL MEANS OF TEACHING E-CIVILIZATION / CULTURE
VIRTUAL MUSEUMS – NON-FORMAL MEANS OF TEACHING E-CIVILIZATION / CULTURE

Summary/Abstract: The environment of teaching and learning civilization and culture has changed from the formal traditional classroom into the non-formal online museums. Our study will aim at analyzing the way in which civilization was e-framed in the virtual project “A History of the World in 100 Objects”, run by BBC Radio 4 and the British Museum in 2010. The British Museum won the 2011 Art Fund Prize for this innovative platform whose main content was created by the contributors (museum curators, university professors, and students-visitors). Our theoretical framework will be framing theory and critical discourse analysis. The research questions will focus on the content of this digital museum: (1) the types of objects belonging to the 20 periods of e-civilization; (2) the salience of countries of origin for the 100 objects; (3) the salience of social practices framed in the non-formal teaching of ecivilization/culture; and on the visitors’ response: (1) the types of attitudes expressed in the forum comments; (2) the types of messages visitors decoded from the analysis of the objects; (3) the (creative) value of such e-resources.

• Details
• Contents