Overview
Background
Caroline is the Director of Museum Studies at the University of Queensland. Formerly a communications professional with around 20 years of experience in the arts and not-for-profit sector, Caroline has a strong interest in exploring the impacts and possibilities of the use of digital and participatory media by the museum.
She is the author of ‘Museums as Platforms” which was released in 2022 and has written a range of related articles including “The quantified and customised museum: measuring, matching and aggregating audiences” (2020), “The logic of platforms: how on demand museums are adapting in the digital era” (2018) “How algorithmic cultural recommendation influence the marketing of cultural collections (2017) and “The personalisation of publicity in the museum” (2016).
Caroline is currently a member of the Digital Cultures and Society group, the Australian Research Node, the Museums Association of Critical Heritage Studies, and is an accredited HEA Fellow.
Research interests include
- Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums (GLAMS)
- Digital Humanities
- Rapid Response and born-digital collecting
- Museums and soft power
- Museums and social change
- Historic urban/cultural landscape: identity, memory, and heritage
- Heritage and Cultural Tourism
- Urban space and media cities
- Gender and sexuality studies
- Social media
Availability
- Dr Caroline Wilson-Barnao is:
- Available for supervision
- Media expert
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Arts, The University of Queensland
- Masters (Coursework), Bond University
- Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland
Research interests
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GLAMS
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Cultural policy
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Museums
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Social Media
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Cultural access
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Born digital collecting
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Rapid responce collecting
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Human in the loop
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Gender studies
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Culture industries
Research impacts
My work benefits museums and cultural institutions by helping them to incorporate new technologies into their exhibitions and operations.
Works
Search Professor Caroline Wilson-Barnao’s works on UQ eSpace
2016
Journal Article
The personalization of publicity in the museum
Wilson-Barnao, Caroline (2016). The personalization of publicity in the museum. Continuum, 30 (6), 688-696. doi: 10.1080/10304312.2016.1189649
Supervision
Availability
- Dr Caroline Wilson-Barnao is:
- Available for supervision
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
Vaccinating the future: Australian GLAM industry approaches to collecting COVID 19.
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Nicholas Carah
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Doctor Philosophy
Sound as a material of the past
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Natalie Collie
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Doctor Philosophy
Research on the effects of the digital media visual context on artistic representation and art creation of professional artists across the Asia-Pacific region.
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Nicholas Carah, Dr Sungyong Ahn
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Doctor Philosophy
Survival on the fringe: Investigating the cultural conditions affecting fringe festival production and reception
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Sheranne Fairley, Dr Bernadette Cochrane
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Doctor Philosophy
Value Perceptions of Queensland's Arts and Culture Sector: A Study of Sector Sustainability
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Monica Chien, Dr Kate Power
Completed supervision
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2024
Doctor Philosophy
Collaborative documentary photography: a relational and visual mode
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Natalie Collie
Media
Enquiries
Contact Dr Caroline Wilson-Barnao directly for media enquiries about:
- Museums
- Public Relations
- Technology
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