POEM PhD Studentship in Information Studies: The role of museums’ social media for the engagement with arts and culture

The project (PhD 3) will research the role of different social networks within museums’ communication activities and analyse the nature and type of interactions on social media with stakeholders and users for understanding the motivation of users engaging with museum social media about cultural experiences and the impact and quality of this engagement in relation to the offline museum experience. The project creates knowledge on the online social interactions and the impact and quality of these on the cultural experiences of users and stakeholders, as well as the impact on the cultural organisations.

Start date: 1 October 2018

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