Jenny Kidd, Museums in the New Mediascape: Transmedia, Participation, Ethics, Farnham: Ashgate, 2014, hardcover ￡ 65.00, pp. ix+166.

摘要

Kidd's Museums in the New Mediascape: Transmedia, Participation, Ethics is the book that the sector needs, seeking to discuss the role, purpose and value of media in museums within the context of a post-digital world. As such, this is a useful guide for researchers and museum practitioners, providing concrete examples of how to tackle the complicated field that has become the 'transmedia' museum. In the museum, transmedia storytelling is 'the extension of narrative across multiple platforms', something that museums are already well versed in, but something less commonly discussed (23). The book separates its topics into clear and concise headings - including Communications, User-created content, Interactivity, Gaming, Mash-ups and Narratives - all of which are highly relevant subjects that museums are having to deal with on a daily basis. If the reader is struggling to make sense of so many new terms and issues then surely we can empathise with museums, struggling daily to wend their way through a new type of museum, a new type of curating, and meet the needs of a new type of visiting audience. Not only does this book cover the issues in an accessible way, but Kidd seeks to provide a comprehensive overview as to what has already been done in the relevant fields of research and outline what we still need to understand and the possibilities of where we might go in the future.