Consultation on the social value of digital technologies for museums

We’re planning our next Let’s Get Real collaborative action research project (LGR6). We would value your thoughts and ideas to ensure we tailor the project to your interests. It shouldn’t take more than 10-15 minutes.

Thanks in advance, Culture24

* 1. What is your name?

* 2. What is the name of your organisation?

* 3. What is your role?

* 4. What is your email address?

* 5. Consider your museum's relationship with social value.
In the last couple of years has your museum sought to create specific social value? (Social value can be interpreted in anyway you feel appropriate).

Yes

If yes please specify what practical activities (digital or otherwise) your museum has undertaken in order to create social value.

* 6. Consider your museum's relationship with digital technologies.
Please indicate which of the following activities your museum has explored in connection to digital technologies (please indicate as many as are relevant)

Digitising collections

Publishing collections online

Digital marketing

Digital learning

Digital interactive exhibition displays

Programming digital art

Online ticketing

Online retail

Exploring digitally-enabled fundraising models

Exploring digitally-enabled business models

Interrogating audience data via digital tools

Using digital back office systems (like CRM, Finance)

Using online project collaboration and project management systems

None of these

Other (please specify)

* 7. Consider your museum's relationship with social value AND digital technologies.

Which of the following statements best describes your organisation's consideration of the social value of digital technologies ?

We've never even considered it

We've considered it but haven't done anything to build our understanding further

We've begun to explore it through strategic or practical activities but haven't yet realised any social value

We have realised specific social value from digital technologies

None of these responses feel appropriate for my organisation at this time

Please provide any relevant additional information, including what strategic or practical activities you have undertaken and what value you have realised (if at all).

* 8. Do you feel there is an appetite, in your museum's leadership team, to leverage digital technologies to generate social value?

Yes

Not sure

Please expand upon your answer

* 9. Have you come across any examples of digital technologies creating social value, from across the cultural sector or outside of the sector?

Yes

If yes please provide details

* 10. Please indicate which of the following questions you would be interested in seeing the LGR6 project explore? (please select up to 3)

1. How can museums embrace digital tools, technologies and digital culture to foster activism, democratic and civic values and become active citizens?

2. How can digital tools, technologies and culture be used by museums to combat social isolation?

3. How might co-creative practices (either digitally or ‘in the real world’) help museums develop meaningful connections to marginalised local communities?

4. How can museums tap into the digital behaviours of younger audiences as a way to engage them in topics which have relevant social value to them?

5 Where are the opportunities for museums to enhance digital wellbeing both for museum professionals and their audiences?

6. How could digital tools, technologies and culture help museums to become stewards of the future as well as the past?

Please indicate any other questions you would like to see explored within this area that haven't been mentioned

We’re planning our next Let’s Get Real collaborative action research project (LGR6). We would value your thoughts and ideas to ensure we tailor the project to your interests. It shouldn’t take more than 10-15 minutes. Thanks in advance, Culture24 OK