Nina Simon on Authorty as Platform

Nina Simon, "From "Future of Authority Platforms," Museum 2.0 blog, 2008.

Museums should feel protective of the expertise reflected in their staff, exhibits, programs, and collections. In most museums, the professional experience of the staff, to preserve objects, to design exhibits, to deliver programs, is not based on content control. It's based on creation and delivery of experiences. And in a world where visitors want to create, remix, and interpret content messages on their own, museums can assume a new role of authority as "platforms" for those creations and recombinations.

And in a world where visitors want to create, remix, and interpret content messages on their own, museums can assume a new role of authority as "platforms" for those creations and recombinations.

There are four main powers that platforms have:

  • the power to set the rules of behavior (ex. community behaviors and expectations)
  • the power to preserve and exploit user-generated content (controlling what happens during interaction and afterwards)
  • the power to promote and feature preferred content (curating, determining how user-content is displayed)
  • the power to define the types of interaction available to users (rate content, create exhibits, comments, etc.)
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