What democracy looks like
Crowd-collecting protest materials
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12815120 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Barbara Cohen-Stratyner (New York Public Library, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 83-91 |
| Publication date | 2017-07-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Museums & Social Issues (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1559-6893 • E-ISSN: 2051-6193 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/15596893.2017.1364571 |
| OpenAlex | W2762210873 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 1 |
Mass political protests have emerged as a persistent theme in the presidency of Donald Trump, among them, the 300+ Women’s Marches that occurred worldwide on 21 January 2017. Collecting by curatorial staff at protests is an existing, although sometimes controversial, practice. However, in the era of social media, crowd-collecting has also become common practice. This Forum article summarizes the history and practice in museums and identity-based archives and proposes protocols for documenting artifacts acquired by protest participants
Aesthetics · Art · Democracy · Identity (music · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Presidency · Public relations · Social media · Sociology · Theme (computing · World Wide Web · Law · Museums and Cultural Heritage
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2022 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |