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Title	City Museums In The Age Of Datafication: Could Museums Be Meaningful Sites Of Data Practice In Smart Cities?
ID_Doc	14171
Authors	Grincheva N.
Year	2023
Published	Museum Management and Curatorship, 38, 4
DOI	http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09647775.2021.2023904
Abstract	The article documents connections and synergies between city museums' visions and programming as well as emerging smart city issues and dilemmas in a fast-paced urban environment marked with the processes of increasing digitalization and datafication. The research employs policy/document analysis and semi-structured interviews with smart city government representatives and museum professionals to investigating both smart city policy frameworks as well as city museum's data-driven installations and activities in New York, London and Singapore. A comparative program analysis of the Singapore City Gallery, Museum of the City of New York and Museum of London identifies such sites of data practices as Data storytelling, interpretation and eco-curation. Discussing these sites as dedicated spaces of smart citizen engagement, the article reveals that city museums can either empower their visitors to consider their roles as active city co-makers or see them as passive recipients of the smart city transformations.
Author Keywords	City museum; Museum of London; Museum of the City of New York; Open Data; Singapore City Gallery; smart city

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