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Who is the Public? Research in Identity in Museums, a talk by John Falk, Oregon State University, 18 May 2010.

Second post about identity outlining what has been written about identity in the museum context.

Attended a talk by John Falk about identity and thought might be useful to post some of the literature I reviewed in my thesis about identity generally.

My thesis investigated adult museum visitors'; learning identities. Here's some of what I concluded in my thesis about identity based on my extensive doctoral research.

We have had a very busy week - lots happening - all over the Museum...

Despite the cold weather the students found a number of golden orbs, leaf-curl spider, black house spiders (Badumna spp), Araneus species and others.

People love to sit around a table and share - whether it's a meal, a conversation over coffee, a bunch of papers to discuss, maps to pore over, photos to compare - we do this around a table. Why not at a museum too?

Having found that Australian Museum visitors used social networking sites, how are they actually using these? Are they passive users or actively engaged?

After nearly six years as the CEO of WWF, Mr Greg Bourne is leaving.

Ian Kiernan the founder of Clean Up Australia and Clean up the World talks about a throwaway society on Plastiki website.

After 39 Days at sea the Plastiki has reached land

Links to papers and online summaries from the 2010 Museums and the Web Conference.

Our next upstairs temporary show looks at something unusual for the Australian Museum - sport.

Smartphones are changing the face of journalism and open content is changing the nature of education – what does this mean for providing museum content on demand?

A new study from the International Center for Media; the Public Agenda (ICMPA) at the University of Maryland suggests that we are.