[Commlist] new Book: Museum Diplomacy in the Digital Age

*Book announcement: Museum Diplomacy in the Digital Age*

The book Museum Diplomacy in the Digital Age (Routledge 2020) explores 
online museum spaces as sites of contemporary diplomacy across the 
largest museums in North America,Europe and Asia-Pacific. In the time of 
the post(pandemic) “digital lockdown”this book offers timely, useful and 
illuminating insights on how museums can retain their global visibility, 
engage their local and international audiences and offer meaningful 
interactive learning experiences. You can read a teaser here: 
https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/museums-in-cyberspace

Building on scholarship that highlights how museums can constitute and 
regulate citizens, construct national communities, and project messages 
across borders, the book explores the political powers of museums in 
their online spaces. Demonstrating that digital media allow museums to 
reach far beyond their physical locations, Grincheva investigates 
whether online audiences are given the tools to co-curate museums and 
their collections to establish new pathways for international cultural 
relations, exchange and, potentially, diplomacy. Evaluating the online 
capacities of museums to exert cultural impacts, the book illuminates 
how online museum narratives shape audience perceptions and redefine 
their cultural attitudes and identities.

Table of Contents:

Introduction. When museums go global and digital: New pathways of museum 
diplomacy
Digital museum diplomacy
Failures of digital repatriation diplomacy: The Virtual Museum of the 
Pacific
Digital heritage imperialism: "A History of the World in 100 Objects"
Online power of global brands: YouTube Play
Conclusion. From failures to successes: From the material past to 
digital futures

The book is currently on discount sale at Routledge. Please, share 
this link with your library to order a hard copy: 
https://www.routledge.com/Museum-Diplomacy-in-the-Digital-Age/Grincheva/p/book/9780815369998 


Book reviews are very welcome! Please request an inspection copy by 
following the link: 
https://www.routledge.com/textbooks/evaluation/9780815369998 or email Dr 
Natalia Grincheva at (grincheva /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(grincheva /at/ gmail.com)>.


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