is a collection of articles about participation intended for academics and professionals. Democratic museum shares power with the visitors while negotiating the concept of professionalism. In this book the idea of participatory technologies is extended to modes of participation using online and offline technologies.

By combining the analysis of the new forms and environments of the digital world with critical scholarship of the role of the users, this book argues that cultural field is facing a challenge of the digital turn. The authors represented in this book share the view that there is no need to fear the new media pushing aside traditional cultural forms.