Foreword / Paula Marincola -- Introduction / Bill Adair, Benjamin Filene, and Laura Koloski -- Virtually breaking down: authority and the web. Thought piece: Participatory design and the future of museums / Nina Simon -- Case study: Where are the best stories? Where is my story?-- participation and curation in a new media age / Steve Zeitlin -- Conversation: Online dialogue and cultural practice: a conversation / Matthew Fisher and Bill Adair -- Thought piece: Get real! The role of objects in the digital age / Matthew MacArthur -- Throwing open the doors: communities as curators. Thought piece: Whose questions, whose conversations? / Kathleen McLean -- Conversation: The "dialogic museum" revisited: a collaborative reflection / John Kuo Wei Tchen and Liz Sevcenko -- Case study: Moving pictures: Minnesota's most rewarding film competition. Introduction / Randal Dietrich -- "Remembering Grandma Lucy" / Tom Drube -- "From book to film--the artifacts of wartime history" / Matt Ehling -- Case study/conversation: Community as curator: a case study at the Brooklyn Historical Society / Deborah Schwartz and Bill Adair -- Hearing voices: sharing authority through oral history. Thought piece: From A shared authority to the digital kitchen, and back / Michael Frisch -- Case study: Make yourself at home--welcoming voices in Open house: if these walls could talk / Benjamin Filene -- Case study: The black bottom: making community-based performance in West Philadelphia / Billy Yalowitz, graphic art by Pete Stathis -- Case study: Listening intently: can StoryCorps teach museums how to win the hearts of new audiences? / Benjamin Filene -- The question of evaluation: understanding the visitors' response. Public curation: form trend to research-based practice / Tom Satwicz and Kris Morrissey -- Constructing perspectives: artists and historical authority. Thought piece: Peering behind the curtain: artists and questioning historical authority / Melissa Rachleff -- Conversation: Mining the museum revisited: a conversation / Fred Wilson, Paula Marincola, and Marjorie Schwarzer -- Case study: "The fever dream of the amateur historian": Ben Katchor's The Rosenbach company: a tragicomedy / Melissa Rachleff -- Case study: Embracing the unexpected: artists in resdience at the American Philosophical Society Museum / Laura Koloski -- Art piece: Sanford and sun / Otabenga Jones -- Case study: A London travelogue: visiting Dennis Severs' house / Mary Teeling.
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