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| Author | Hopkins P., Hare J., Donaghey J., Abbott W. | |
| Title | Geo, audio, video, photo: How digital convergence in mobile devices facilitates participatory culture in libraries | |
| Reference | Hopkins P., Hare J., Donaghey J., Abbott W.; Geo, audio, video, photo: How digital convergence in mobile devices facilitates participatory culture in libraries ;Australian Library Journal vol:64.0 issue: 1.0 page:11.0 |
Link to article | https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84954373737&doi=10.1080%2f00049670.2014.984379&partnerID=40&md5=229b474a44b6ff50d17ba57edb36a09b |
| Abstract | Libraries are often hailed as the cultural and learning hub of their communities. To deepen community engagement and social inclusion, libraries are adopting new technologies to facilitate a participatory and learning culture. With market saturation of smartphones and tablets and their associated apps, new affordances for content creation, curation and sharing show great potential to enhance participatory culture. The typical smartphone or tablet now incorporates digital technologies such as geo-location, audio, video, photo and web technologies. Bringing these technologies into a single device has enabled the development of apps such as Instagram, HistoryPin and SoundCloud. It has also changed the way users engage with established social networks and photo-sharing sites. Users can now create and share content on an unprecedented scale from any accessible Wi-fi or mobile phone network. Libraries are embracing these technology-rich apps to interact with their customers in many different ways. Examples in this article examine how libraries are taking up opportunities enabled by the convergence of technologies into mobile devices in the participatory culture context - tapping into new communities, engaging with their stakeholders in meaningful ways, enhancing their social impact and transforming their essential roles in todays knowledge society. © 2014 Australian Library & Information Association. |
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| Conclusion In the current networked world, there is great potential for libraries to play a vital role in the participatory culture movement by supporting people to gain the skills and technology access necessary for meaningful participation in society at every level, and by harnessing the principles of participatory culture to transform libraries into transparent, engaged, responsive cultural organisations. . | The examples illustrate how libraries can take advantage of opportunities presented by the converged media environment to deepen community engagement and social inclusion, and to facilitate a participatory and learning culture - tapping into new communities, engaging with their stakeholders in meaningful ways, enhancing their social impact and transforming their essential roles in todays knowledge society. . | To deepen community engagement and social inclusion, libraries are adopting new technologies to facilitate a participatory and learning culture. . | The convergence technologies of Web 2.0/Library 2.0 have been a stimulus for the participatory library and librarians are being encouraged to craft their tools and services to enable users to communicate and join in (Stephens 2007). . | The examples illustrate how libraries are innovating with these platforms and becoming more transparent, participatory, socially inclusive and creative. . | Librarians are also using these apps to produce and share their educational and promotional content more imaginatively. . | Libraries are often hailed as the cultural and learning hub of their communities. . | Most importantly, this new model is leading to a new sense of community amongst library users. . | Underpinning the drive to expand participatory culture is often the assumption that new technologies in a converged media environment place new tools in the hands of the people, and that these will inevitably provide everyone with improved opportunities to participate in the transformation of their world. . | For libraries to retain the mantle of the learning and cultural hub of their communities, it is important that they seek to achieve meaningful participation as they explore the opportunities afforded in a converged media environment.. | Participatory culture in libraries The participatory culture movement is described as the push to enable democracy and promote diversity through grassroots participation in cultural and political decision-making (Jenkins 2013). . | Perhaps the most valuable feature of Historypin for libraries is its ease of use, making digital photographic collections in the library more easily discovered. . | This transformation, described by Stephens as the Hyperlinked Library, is a good fit with the characteristics of participatory culture: The Hyperlinked Library . . . is an open, participatory institution that welcomes user input and creativity. . | The potential for meaningful community engagement and participation. . |
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