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Instability of the imaginary and media power between old new cultural industries

There is a strong perception of insecurity in Italy because of various more or less recent phenomena such as terrorism, immigration, unemployment, and then again, an economic crisis, a pandemic and an unexpected war that never seem to end. Events…

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What Big Data Is and How Can We Use It

In recent years, we have witnessed an exponential growth of the amount of data we are generating. As an example, consider the numbers depicted in Figure 1, that shows what happens in one minute in Internet, for both the years…

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“γνῶθι σαυτόν” Technology as tools for inclusive museums: Liquid museum experience

The accessibility is one of the most important stuff for museums and often is replaced with “inclusion” because involves in holistic way all museum life in general. Thanks to digital accessibility the museums join the visitor’s technologies behaviours and improve…

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IVIPRO: Narrating Italy through Videogames

Videogames can become the way to discover the world that surrounds us: this is the premise of the Italian Videogame Program project. IVIPRO is a national and cross-regional project, working closely with all local institutions. On one hand, we are…

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Communicating archaeology to everyone.

Cultural Heritage does not represent a value in itself, but it rather embodies a relational value: an archaeological site, for instance, is whatever value the civil society and the community of reference give to it. The communication of the meaning…

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Kunstmatrix: online platforms to support the art market

What are the real ef fects of this global crisis on art galleries and all of the art market players today? Is it prolonging their online activity by the use of platform and digital tools? What we were expecting was…

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*UrbanSensing: listening to the digital city

*UrbanSensing is a two year funded European Union project, it involves six European Partners, that all contribute their specific expertise and skills in the fields of the project. The project will bring a new product to the urban design, city…

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Three ideas for further reflection from ICCPR 2018

This article discusses some thought-provoking papers presented at the ICCPR2018. It looks first at the use of digital technologies in the art sector, with regard to data visualization and open data policies, identifying a huge untapped potential. Secondly, it opens…

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Towards more open information : digital media as moral, civic and multicultural environments

In the new information society ,living in a global space, ideas, technologies, people, products are intended to move from one place to another, but remaining interconnected within an ambient where cultures increasingly more dynamic contact What emerges now is the…

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Reflections on the use of the territorial data and GIS in tourism: the Italian case

This paper focuses mainly on issues related to digital tourism with connection to the italian context, in an attempt to show the potentiality offered by the GIS for the development of the tourism sector. For this reason, it will be…

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Before Web-Marketing. Digital research for cities and cultural institutions

1. Cultural sites Online Visibility Online visibility of a a cultural site can be considered a strong indicator of the institutional ability to activate the cultural heritage. Hand in hand with the spread of the Internet and its penetration into…

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The experience of the image in digital media. Reflections on today’s cognitive forms.

A red icon on a blue coloured background. Notification: Tom has shared a picture on your timeline. A ringtone and vibration, the phone’s screen lights up, a message appears: Richard has sent you a picture. The quantity of images that…

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The future art of storytelling: Future Fabulating in Madeira Island

Introduction The practice of predicting the future has a long history, ranging from personal consultation in the patterns of coffee grounds to global computational projections derived from vast sums of data. The longing for a vision of the future…

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Social media against travel authenticity

Introduction One fifth of the human population uses social networks and one third of world travelers access them during their vacations, especially to share experiences, info and pictures of the places that they are visiting, and to look up information…

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The advent of the Digital Era and, subsequently, of Media Culture has not only changed the way we think, act and interact with the world but also interfered with our more basic motor skills and the way our body operates…

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American Museums versus Italian Museums online: are they so dissimilar?

Not unlike Italy, the cultural institutions of the United States are part of a prism returning different shades of quality in managing new digital tools. Let us take social media as an example for all: when asked to specify the…

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How web presence strategy can help museums to be a digital breeding ground for innovative communication

This article aims to understand if an efficient museums' online presence can strategically impact on and improve their promotion and the way they are perceived by potential visitors. Visitors can engage and support a museum more if they feel like…

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The Art of Augmenting Reality

Over the last few years, we have been witness to the emergence of the use of the virtual in public space. The manifestation of the virtual and the interplay of it with the real are changing the concept of public…

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Grounding a new meaning of performative museum on the paradigm of Natural Interaction

This contribution aims at outlining a theoretical framework for the interpretation of some recent trends in museum exhibition design, based on the technological paradigm of Natural Human Computer Interaction. Performance and performativity from the perspective of performance studies are employed…

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Images and the Web: A 2.0 approach to preserving the Gorizia Archdiocese Photo Archive | Immagini e Web: percorsi della memoria 2.0. Per una nuova versione Web dell’Archivio fotografico dell’Arcidiocesi di Gorizia

Il Web sta diventando sempre più il luogo di asset informativi di grande rilevanza scientifica e culturale, che non hanno alcuna controparte fisica e richiedono un’adeguata rappresentazione e un management efficace. "Percorsi della memoria" è il titolo del progetto di…

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The new frontiers of 3D art

Digital art is quite complex: it is not just photo editing or video recording. It can push creativity to its “ordinary” extremes just as in the experience of a sculptor with a block of chalk; it is the art of…

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User Analyses and the Quality of European Cultural Web Services: The Minerva Manual and the Evaluation of the Europeana Prototype | Gli studi sugli utenti per la qualità dei servizi web culturali europei: il Manuale Minerva e la valutazione del prototipo di Europeana

The MINERVA manual offers a framework for understanding user needs and behaviors in the context of cultural web platforms. This paper presents a case study of how the manual was applied to evaluate the Europeana prototype, involving users from four…

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Un ritratto mediatico del quartiere Liberties di Dublino – A mediated portrait of the Dublin Liberties

People enjoy telling and empathizing with stories. The aim of the digital “Media Portrait of the Liberties” is to offer “a sense of place” to the contemporary community – which is a mix of residents from the immediate vicinity, a…

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Cross-media Interaction for the Virtual Museum | Interazioni tra media per un museo virtuale

Silence of the Lands è un museo virtuale localizzato a Boulder, in Colorado sul silenzio della natura. Il progetto, basato su tecniche di "locative and tangibile computing", promuove un modello di realtà virtuale che rafforza il ruolo attivo e propositivo…

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Technology for Culture – Culture for Technology

Instability of the imaginary and media power between old new cultural industries

What Big Data Is and How Can We Use It

“γνῶθι σαυτόν” Technology as tools for inclusive museums: Liquid museum experience

IVIPRO: Narrating Italy through Videogames

Communicating archaeology to everyone.

Kunstmatrix: online platforms to support the art market

Three ideas for further reflection from ICCPR 2018

Towards more open information : digital media as moral, civic and multicultural environments

Reflections on the use of the territorial data and GIS in tourism: the Italian case

The future art of storytelling: Future Fabulating in Madeira Island

The Art of Augmenting Reality

Grounding a new meaning of performative museum on the paradigm of Natural Interaction

Images and the Web: A 2.0 approach to preserving the Gorizia Archdiocese Photo Archive | Immagini e Web: percorsi della memoria 2.0. Per una nuova versione Web dell’Archivio fotografico dell’Arcidiocesi di Gorizia

The new frontiers of 3D art

User Analyses and the Quality of European Cultural Web Services: The Minerva Manual and the Evaluation of the Europeana Prototype | Gli studi sugli utenti per la qualità dei servizi web culturali europei: il Manuale Minerva e la valutazione del prototipo di Europeana

Un ritratto mediatico del quartiere Liberties di Dublino – A mediated portrait of the Dublin Liberties

Cross-media Interaction for the Virtual Museum | Interazioni tra media per un museo virtuale