Ian Mcshane
Biographic Data
| ID | 3701456 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ian Mcshane |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ian |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcshane |
| SIGNATURE | MCSHANE I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Swinburne University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8280-4560 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Rethinking community hubs
What explains the degree of e-participation? A comparison of the adoption of digital participation platforms in Oslo, Melbourne and Madrid
E-participation research has mainly been concerned with the spread of e-participation technologies, but less with why some government organizations choose to use digital tools to consult citizens (e-consultation) whereas others go further and include them in the decision-making processes (e-decision making). This article is an in-depth, comparative case-study of the adoption of e-participation platforms in Oslo, Melbourne and Madrid, and develops…
Expectations and realities of digital public spaces
This article analyses expectations and experiences of digital public spaces that facilitate community engagement with urban planning. While viewing digital spaces as part of an expanding repertoire of public spaces and events – physical and digital – that signify the participatory turn in municipal governance, we argue that local officials and residents are overly optimistic about the democratic and administrative capacities of the digital sphere…
Public Wi‐Fi provision by Australian local government authorities
Investment by Australian local government authorities (LGAs) in public Wi‐Fi (PWF) provision has grown substantially in recent years. PWF represents the first significant venture of LGAs into telecommunications, a field of national jurisdiction, and thus is a precursor of wider local investment in digital communication technologies, particularly the Internet of Things and other ‘smart city’ infrastructure. However, there has been little published…
British Migrants – Instant Australians? Immigration Museum, Melbourne
This nuanced and intimate exhibition explores the context of post-World War II British migration to Australia, and the experiences of some of the 1.5 million people who came to Australia from the U
Productive Nation? Museums, Cultural Policy and Australia's Productivity Narrative
This article traces the emergence of productivity as a central theme in Australia's national cultural policy, and discusses some implications of this development for the Australian museum sector. The analysis focuses on two texts - Australia's two national cultural policies, Creative Nation (1994) and Creative Australia (2013) - to highlight changing policy rhetorics through which cultural heritage and cultural pluralism lose traction, and produc…
Transnational cultural ties in a settler colonial world
In the 1930s, the Carnegie Corporation of New York (CCNY) sponsored a series of inquiries into museum provision in countries of the British Empire. This article examines the 1933 inquiry into Australian museums and art galleries. It argues that existing analysis of the inquiry tends to dismiss its significance in terms of museum sector development in Australia. The article looks beyond this national focus to locate the Australian text within the …
Broadband as Civic Infrastructure
Australian municipal governments have lagged behind many of their international counterparts in local public broadband provision. However, by 2014 there are signs that the gap is closing, with significant new investment in public wi-fi by city governments across Australia. This article contextualises the current interest in public wi-fi by analysing international developments in municipal broadband and the spasmodic involvement of Australian loca…
Learning to share
This article analyses the conceptual and policy contexts of the Australian government's Building the Education Revolution (BER) programme. This $A15 billion commitment to renewing school facilities is the Australian government's largest single measure of economic stimulus in response to the recent global financial crisis. Public debate and analysis of BER have focused on its economic objective. The programme has a second, less publicised objectiv…
Museum
The Grainger Museum, Australia's only autobiographical museum and one of its most fascinating, has re-opened after seven years. Coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of the death of the museum's original financier and principal subject, Percy Aldridge Grainger, the refit gives visitors rich insights to Grainger's life, ideas and creative output
Public libraries, digital literacy and participatory culture
In recent years public libraries have experimented with user-generated or community-contributed content through the interactive tools of Web 2.0. For some commentators this not just establishes a new relationship between libraries and their publics, but signals the end of information hegemony and an ‘expert paradigm’. Such claims need to be treated with caution. This article argues that public library experiments with user-generated content can b…
Unlocking the potential? – Australia's digital strategy and major public libraries
This paper examines some implications for public libraries of the Australian government's 2009 strategy for the digital economy. Many countries have produced national digital strategies in recent years, but these key pieces of policy architecture have received little critical attention. The rhetorical framing of the Australian document indicates the shift of communication and information to the centre of economic policy. This has particular signi…
The past and future of local swimming pools
This article examines both recent policy to rationalise the provision of local public swimming pools, and the controversy that some closure or redevelopment plans have generated. Focusing on Victoria, the article analyses the cultural and political history of municipal pools, challenging a current policy narrative of local authority failure by highlighting earlier civic and higher government initiatives for pool building. Physical infrastructure …
Analysing the challenges for large public libraries in the twenty-first century
For large public libraries, the development of digital technologies poses challenges that have yet to be fully explored. While library sector rhetoric rightly imagines that digital technologies bring change to all aspects of library operations, it is not enough to focus on the technologies. Using the State Library of Victoria in Australia as a case example, this paper identifies two key challenges for large public libraries in the new millennium.…
Exhibitions
Getting In. Immigration Museum, Melbourne. Permanent exhibition. Entry free with entry to Museum. National Treasures from Australia's Great Libraries. Canberra, National Library, December 2005‐February 2006; thereafter to all states, beginning with the State Library of Victoria 10 March‐7 May. Catalogue: National Treasures from Australia's Great Libraries. Canberra: National Library, 2005. Pp. 176. $34.95 paper. Captivating and Curious. National …
Social Value and the Management of Community Infrastructure
The management of community infrastructure by local governments has emerged as a significant policy issue in Australia as evidence mounts of a funding shortfall to maintain ageing physical assets. In 2003 the Victorian government introduced a new infrastructure management policy to focus local government decision‐making on service potential and financial sustainability rather than political interests or community preference. However, the policy r…
Social Value and the Management of Community Infrastructure
The management of community infrastructure by local governments has emerged as a significant policy issue in Australia as evidence mounts of a funding shortfall to maintain ageing physical assets. In 2003 the Victorian government introduced a new infrastructure management policy to focus local government decision‐making on service potential and financial sustainability rather than political interests or community preference. However, the policy r…
Learning to share
This article analyses the conceptual and policy contexts of the Australian government's Building the Education Revolution (BER) programme. This $A15 billion commitment to renewing school facilities is the Australian government's largest single measure of economic stimulus in response to the recent global financial crisis. Public debate and analysis of BER have focused on its economic objective. The programme has a second, less publicised objectiv…
Rethinking community hubs
Productive Nation? Museums, Cultural Policy and Australia's Productivity Narrative
This article traces the emergence of productivity as a central theme in Australia's national cultural policy, and discusses some implications of this development for the Australian museum sector. The analysis focuses on two texts - Australia's two national cultural policies, Creative Nation (1994) and Creative Australia (2013) - to highlight changing policy rhetorics through which cultural heritage and cultural pluralism lose traction, and produc…
Broadband as Civic Infrastructure
Australian municipal governments have lagged behind many of their international counterparts in local public broadband provision. However, by 2014 there are signs that the gap is closing, with significant new investment in public wi-fi by city governments across Australia. This article contextualises the current interest in public wi-fi by analysing international developments in municipal broadband and the spasmodic involvement of Australian loca…
Public libraries, digital literacy and participatory culture
In recent years public libraries have experimented with user-generated or community-contributed content through the interactive tools of Web 2.0. For some commentators this not just establishes a new relationship between libraries and their publics, but signals the end of information hegemony and an ‘expert paradigm’. Such claims need to be treated with caution. This article argues that public library experiments with user-generated content can b…
Exhibitions
Getting In. Immigration Museum, Melbourne. Permanent exhibition. Entry free with entry to Museum. National Treasures from Australia's Great Libraries. Canberra, National Library, December 2005‐February 2006; thereafter to all states, beginning with the State Library of Victoria 10 March‐7 May. Catalogue: National Treasures from Australia's Great Libraries. Canberra: National Library, 2005. Pp. 176. $34.95 paper. Captivating and Curious. National …
Social Value and the Management of Community Infrastructure
The management of community infrastructure by local governments has emerged as a significant policy issue in Australia as evidence mounts of a funding shortfall to maintain ageing physical assets. In 2003 the Victorian government introduced a new infrastructure management policy to focus local government decision‐making on service potential and financial sustainability rather than political interests or community preference. However, the policy r…
Analysing the challenges for large public libraries in the twenty-first century
For large public libraries, the development of digital technologies poses challenges that have yet to be fully explored. While library sector rhetoric rightly imagines that digital technologies bring change to all aspects of library operations, it is not enough to focus on the technologies. Using the State Library of Victoria in Australia as a case example, this paper identifies two key challenges for large public libraries in the new millennium.…
The past and future of local swimming pools
This article examines both recent policy to rationalise the provision of local public swimming pools, and the controversy that some closure or redevelopment plans have generated. Focusing on Victoria, the article analyses the cultural and political history of municipal pools, challenging a current policy narrative of local authority failure by highlighting earlier civic and higher government initiatives for pool building. Physical infrastructure …
Unlocking the potential? – Australia's digital strategy and major public libraries
This paper examines some implications for public libraries of the Australian government's 2009 strategy for the digital economy. Many countries have produced national digital strategies in recent years, but these key pieces of policy architecture have received little critical attention. The rhetorical framing of the Australian document indicates the shift of communication and information to the centre of economic policy. This has particular signi…
Museum
The Grainger Museum, Australia's only autobiographical museum and one of its most fascinating, has re-opened after seven years. Coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of the death of the museum's original financier and principal subject, Percy Aldridge Grainger, the refit gives visitors rich insights to Grainger's life, ideas and creative output
Public libraries, digital literacy and participatory culture
In recent years public libraries have experimented with user-generated or community-contributed content through the interactive tools of Web 2.0. For some commentators this not just establishes a new relationship between libraries and their publics, but signals the end of information hegemony and an ‘expert paradigm’. Such claims need to be treated with caution. This article argues that public library experiments with user-generated content can b…
Learning to share
This article analyses the conceptual and policy contexts of the Australian government's Building the Education Revolution (BER) programme. This $A15 billion commitment to renewing school facilities is the Australian government's largest single measure of economic stimulus in response to the recent global financial crisis. Public debate and analysis of BER have focused on its economic objective. The programme has a second, less publicised objectiv…
Transnational cultural ties in a settler colonial world
In the 1930s, the Carnegie Corporation of New York (CCNY) sponsored a series of inquiries into museum provision in countries of the British Empire. This article examines the 1933 inquiry into Australian museums and art galleries. It argues that existing analysis of the inquiry tends to dismiss its significance in terms of museum sector development in Australia. The article looks beyond this national focus to locate the Australian text within the …
Broadband as Civic Infrastructure
Australian municipal governments have lagged behind many of their international counterparts in local public broadband provision. However, by 2014 there are signs that the gap is closing, with significant new investment in public wi-fi by city governments across Australia. This article contextualises the current interest in public wi-fi by analysing international developments in municipal broadband and the spasmodic involvement of Australian loca…
Productive Nation? Museums, Cultural Policy and Australia's Productivity Narrative
This article traces the emergence of productivity as a central theme in Australia's national cultural policy, and discusses some implications of this development for the Australian museum sector. The analysis focuses on two texts - Australia's two national cultural policies, Creative Nation (1994) and Creative Australia (2013) - to highlight changing policy rhetorics through which cultural heritage and cultural pluralism lose traction, and produc…
British Migrants – Instant Australians? Immigration Museum, Melbourne
This nuanced and intimate exhibition explores the context of post-World War II British migration to Australia, and the experiences of some of the 1.5 million people who came to Australia from the U
Public Wi‐Fi provision by Australian local government authorities
Investment by Australian local government authorities (LGAs) in public Wi‐Fi (PWF) provision has grown substantially in recent years. PWF represents the first significant venture of LGAs into telecommunications, a field of national jurisdiction, and thus is a precursor of wider local investment in digital communication technologies, particularly the Internet of Things and other ‘smart city’ infrastructure. However, there has been little published…
Expectations and realities of digital public spaces
This article analyses expectations and experiences of digital public spaces that facilitate community engagement with urban planning. While viewing digital spaces as part of an expanding repertoire of public spaces and events – physical and digital – that signify the participatory turn in municipal governance, we argue that local officials and residents are overly optimistic about the democratic and administrative capacities of the digital sphere…
Rethinking community hubs
What explains the degree of e-participation? A comparison of the adoption of digital participation platforms in Oslo, Melbourne and Madrid
E-participation research has mainly been concerned with the spread of e-participation technologies, but less with why some government organizations choose to use digital tools to consult citizens (e-consultation) whereas others go further and include them in the decision-making processes (e-decision making). This article is an in-depth, comparative case-study of the adoption of e-participation platforms in Oslo, Melbourne and Madrid, and develops…
Political science (13 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Public relations (9 works) · Business (8 works) · Public Administration (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Public Administration (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Government (linguistics (5 works)