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Museums and Social Media During COVID-19

Museums and Social Media During COVID-19 REVIEW ESSAYS Jim McGrath March 2020 saw most of the world’s cultural heritage institutions close their doors, voluntarily or by government order, as a precautionary measure taken to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. In response, organizations and individuals developed new forms of online programming, utilized social media as sites of dialogue and cura- tion, digitally remediated exhibitions and events that were planned to take place in other formats, and disseminated content and materials that had previously been digitized or digitally recorded. As these efforts were underway, it became clear that COVID-19’s impact would be far greater than a temporary closure. Practitioners of public history and cultural heritage more broadly, digital and otherwise, now face challenges that seem unprecedented in terms of their severity and scale: economic hardships created by lost revenue that have resulted in layoffs, hiring freezes, budget cuts, and other austerity measures; and illness, death, trauma, and other negative effects on our physical and mental health. A scan of social media over the last few months reveals many examples of creative and exemplary work by public historians, but we also find many conversations and Twitter threads by our peers documenting the ways that the pandemic has created http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Public Historian University of California Press

Museums and Social Media During COVID-19

McGrath, Jim
The Public Historian , Volume 42 (4): 9 – Nov 1, 2020
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University of California Press
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© 2020 by The Regents of the University of California and the National Council on Public History
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10.1525/tph.2020.42.4.164
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REVIEW ESSAYS Jim McGrath March 2020 saw most of the world’s cultural heritage institutions close their doors, voluntarily or by government order, as a precautionary measure taken to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. In response, organizations and individuals developed new forms of online programming, utilized social media as sites of dialogue and cura- tion, digitally remediated exhibitions and events that were planned to take place in other formats, and disseminated content and materials that had previously been digitized or digitally recorded. As these efforts were underway, it became clear that COVID-19’s impact would be far greater than a temporary closure. Practitioners of public history and cultural heritage more broadly, digital and otherwise, now face challenges that seem unprecedented in terms of their severity and scale: economic hardships created by lost revenue that have resulted in layoffs, hiring freezes, budget cuts, and other austerity measures; and illness, death, trauma, and other negative effects on our physical and mental health. A scan of social media over the last few months reveals many examples of creative and exemplary work by public historians, but we also find many conversations and Twitter threads by our peers documenting the ways that the pandemic has created

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