{"id":13261,"date":"2019-01-21T15:24:20","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T15:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jenrossity.net\/blog\/?p=13261"},"modified":"2019-01-21T15:25:26","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T15:25:26","slug":"new-journal-article-digital-co-production-hospitality-and-mobilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jenrossity.net\/blog\/?p=13261","title":{"rendered":"new journal article: digital co-production, hospitality and mobilities"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Carnival Scene, Francesco Montelatici. Royal Scottish Academy of Art & Architecture collections, David Laing Bequest (on loan to the Scottish National Gallery<\/a>).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My most recent article was published last week, and it bridges the recent Artcasting project<\/a> with work I am currently developing about what ‘open futures’ for digital cultural heritage may look like, and why this matters.<\/p>\n

Ross, J. (2019).\u00a0Casting a line: digital co-production, hospitality and mobilities in cultural heritage settings<\/a>.\u00a0Curator: The Museum Journal,\u00a0<\/em>61\/4. 575-592.<\/p>\n

I’m fond of this paper. It came about because of the co-production strand at the Association of Critical Heritage Studies’ conference in 2016, where I first talked about the idea of digital co-production<\/a> and got really useful feedback from some fantastic researchers. Since then I’ve been developing the idea further, and refining the key elements of digital co-production.<\/p>\n

In a nutshell, I argue that digital co-production:<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0<\/span> unfolds across multiple times and spaces;<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0<\/span> involves the \u2018unknowable other\u2019;<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0<\/span> challenges the stability of relationships;<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0<\/span> invites a rethinking of hospitality.<\/p>\n

I use the example of the Artcasting project to illustrate these four elements. Ultimately, the theoretical contribution is the bringing together of hospitality and mobilities to consider hospitality as a ‘trajectory’, building on David Bell<\/a>‘s (2012) notion of ‘host-spots’.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>In the context of co-production, trajectory\u00a0invites us to consider movements of people into,\u00a0through and away from the museum, taking up\u00a0different positions in relation to shifting host\/guest trajectories as they enter, leave, and reencounter\u00a0it. A range of practices in relation to access\u00a0and use of digital cultural heritage objects offers\u00a0many possible trajectories of hospitality. The\u00a0<\/span>position of \u2018host\u2019 shifts from the museum to the\u00a0aggregator web site to the user themselves as\u00a0control over and location of the digital object\u00a0moves. Guesting is constructed and reconfigured\u00a0through timelines, searches, mentions,\u00a0likes and upvotes. The user-as-host might even\u00a0extend a welcome to the museum-as-guest by\u00a0mentioning it on their personal feed.<\/p>\n

All of\u00a0these trajectories coalesce around an object\u00a0whose meanings are shifting in the process. I think the role of the\u00a0museum in this context is to set up co-productive\u00a0situations that can allow for multiple hostings\u00a0and guestings, and (following Doron 2009)\u00a0inhabit more uncertain, less secure positions\u00a0in relation to its role as \u2018host\u2019. (Artcasting was a very interesting example of this multiplicity.)<\/p>\n

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References:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bell, D. 2012. \u201cMoments of Hospitality.\u201d In\u00a0Mobilizing Hospitality: The Ethics of Social\u00a0Relations in a Mobile World<\/em>, edited by J. G. Molz\u00a0and S. Gibson. Ashgate Publishing Ltd.<\/p>\n

Doron, E. 2009. \u201cAt Hospitality\u2019s Threshold: From\u00a0Social Inclusion to Exilic Education.\u201d Curator:\u00a0The Museum Journal<\/em> 52(2): 169\u2013<\/b>82.<\/p>\n

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Shout outs to Melissa Terras, Smita Kheria, Christopher Ganley, \u00a0Mairi Lafferty, Ashley Beamer and Louise Rasmussen for all their contributions to the thinking-in-progress, to Phil Sheail fo<\/em>r the work we did on hospitality that informed this paper, to Sian Bayne for reading and commenting, and to Jeremy Knox, Claire Sowton and Chris Speed for everything Artcasting related. \ud83d\ude42\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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