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标题：Museums and attacks from cyberspace: Non-linear communication in a postmodern world
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作者：Bob Hodge
期刊名称：Museum and Society
电子版ISSN：1479-8360
出版年度：2011
卷号：9
期号：2
出版社：University of Leicester
摘要：This article examines a single virtual incident, a hostile review by climate-change sceptic journalist Andrew Bolt of an Australian Museum exhibition onclimate change, to explore its implications for contemporary museums curatingcontroversial topics. It takes both topic and attack as aspects of new conditionswhich science and museums alike must cope with, which include newconcepts of science and society, and new communication technologies. It usesthe concept of the 'postmodern condition' as a framework for understandingsome crucial features of these new conditions. It sees traditional linear modelsof communication as dangerously limited ways for museums to operateeffectively in this new highly complex and unpredictable environment. It findsthat some aspects of this Exhibition had an underlying linearity that left itespecially open to the attack it received, while other aspects incorporated aneffective complexity that better fulfilled its aims. Yet the analysis does not offercomplete safety against such attacks. On the contrary, part of the dangerexposed in this analysis comes from new 'postmodern' levels of irrationalityand lack of respect for science legitimated by the claims of these critics to bedefenders of reason and science
关键词：Museums and climate change; linear models of communication; complexity;thinking; virtual museums; postmodern condition