O1 – Practices of digitally mediated youth engagement for GLAMs during the pandemic.
Objective
This first project result (O1) aims to better understand how Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAMs) use digital technologies to engage with and serve the needs of young people during the pandemic. To do so, we carried out surveys and interviews with GLAM professionals, background research on the use of digital media for youth engagement, and a selection of 15 original initiatives organised byEuropean GLAMs. The long-term goal is to enhance dialogue within the cultural sector about the challenges and opportunities of using digital media to connect with young people in a time of crisis and change.
An open access publication, infographics in several European languages and public events are connected to this objective.
Public events
- On 29 September 2021, a 45-minutes webinar “Practices of digitally mediated youth engagement in GLAMs during the pandemic”: insights and advice. Experience from GLAM professionals developing digital youth initiatives, and practical examples by The Glamers of easy-to-implement techniques for digital interaction with youth audiences.
- On 13 October 2021, a lively interactive 3-hour workshop: “Youth audience engagement during COVID: digital ideas and methods from The GLAMers” will teach attendees how to implement a variety of digital audience-engagement techniques Authors of the GLAMers study and experts from participating GLAM institutions will share their knowledge and insights through case studies and hands-on exercises.
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Procedure
- An inventory of GLAM initiatives for young target groups during the pandemic is now completed. More than 100 practices have been collected between March and June 2021, through a public survey and an internal desktop research.
- Interviews with GLAMs experts having organized initiatives that engage youth with their collection and activities are carried out (June-July 2021)
- Analysis of interviews, compilation of practices, review and release of the study “Digitally mediated youth engagement for GLAMs during the pandemic ».
Contributors
Output leader: Katerina Zourou, Ph.D., Head of Web2Learn
All The GLAMers partners contributed to the O1 results
The Partners
The GLAMers project is funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union. This website and all its contents reflect only the views of the author, the European Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of information contained therein.
[Project number : 2020-1-CY02-KA227-YOU-002022]