can museum allow online users to become participants?

Garmil (Washington, D.C.: American Association of Museums, 1997), 16.
14. Stephen Bitgood, Beverly Serrell and Don Thompson, ―The Impact of Informal
Education on Visitors to Museums,‖ in Informal Science Learning: What the Research
Says About Television, Science Museums, and Community-Based Projects, ed. Valerie
Crane (Dedham, MA: Research Communications, 1994), 67.
15. See Anderson, Wired Museum, 19; and Howard Besser, ―The Transformation of the
Museum and the Way It‘s Perceived‖ in Wired Museum, 153.
16. See Wikipedia, s.v. ―Star Wars,‖ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars (accessed
August 9, 2007).
17. Besser, Wired Museum, 121.
18. James Boyle, ―Reinventing the Gatekeeper‖ (keynote address, ―Beyond Broadcast:
Reinventing Public Media in a Participatory Culture,‖ Harvard University, May 12, 2006),
www.beyondbroadcast.net/blog/?p=100.
19. Darlene Fichter, ―Web 2.0, Library 2.0 and Radical Trust: A First Take,‖ weblog,
April 2, 2006, http://library2.usask.ca/~fichter/blog_on_the_side/2006/04/web-2.html.
20. Seb Chan, ―Radical Trust and Web 2.0,‖ weblog, August 31, 2006,
www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/index.php/2006/08/31/radical-trust-web-20/.
21. John H. Falk, ―An Identity-Centered Approach to Understanding Museum Learning,‖
Curator 49, no. 2 (2006): 161; and George E. Hein, Learning in the Museum (London:
Routledge, 1998), 147.
22. Falk, ―Museum Learning,‖ 161.
23. Jay Rounds, ―Doing Identity Work in Museums,‖ Curator 49, no. 2 (2006): 139; and
Daniel Spock, ―The Puzzle of Museum Educational Practice: A Comment on Rounds and
Falk‖ Curator 49, no. 2 (2006): 176.
24. Hein, Learning in the Museum, 151; and Spock, ―Museum Educational Practice,‖ 178.
25. Hein, Learning in the Museum, 143–144.
26. John H. Falk and Lynn D. Dierking, Learning from Museums: Visitor Experiences and
the Making of Meaning (Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 2000), 187.
27. Falk and Dierking, Learning from Museums, 194–195; Hein, Learning in the Museum,
146; and Rounds, ―Identity Work,‖ 142–143.
28. Falk and Dierking, Learning from Museums, 200; and Hein, Learning in the Museum,
153.
29. Ross Mayfield, ―Power Law of Participation,‖ weblog, April 27, 2006,
http://ross.typepad.com/blog/2006/04/power_law_of_pa.html.
30. Jennifer Trant, ―Trust, Audience and Community: Museums, Libraries and Identity,‖
weblog, September 1, 2006, http://conference.archimuse.com/node/106.
31. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, See|Hear: Museums and
Imagination (Los Angeles: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 2006), 13.
32. Ibid., 19.
33. Ibid., 32.
34. Ibid., 19.
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