Kate Meyers Emery

I’m a fan of video games- not just in my personal life, where first-person shooters are an important part of stress-relief and relationship building- but in my professional life as well. During my tenure as a Ph.D. student at Michigan State, I had the opportunity to be the project manager on a modification of Civilization…

The selfie is a unique type of self-portrait, that while not limited to mobile phone based photography, has definitely increased over the last decade. On the one hand, it has been argued that the selfie is part of self-aggrandizing and narcissistic behavior. Halpern, Valenzuela and Katz (2016) found that “narcissist individuals take selfies more frequently…

One of my favorite ways to get inspiration is to visit (and support) other museums and cultural institutions. Not only is it a great way to see first hand how other institutions are engaging with the public, but it also allows you to take the perspective of a visitor and see how effective the engagement is.…

If you’ve been following #MuseumNext, you may have seen the fantastic interactive of Twitter conversations created by Andrea Ledesma. During #UpstateSocial16, I shared a circular dendrogram that showed the location of individuals who were using the conference’s hashtag. What these both have in common, is that they are using TAGS 6.1 to capture tweets. TAGS 6.1…