Hi. I am Barry Joseph.
I am formerly the VP of Digital Experience at the Girl Scouts of the USA and Associate Director For Digital Learning at the American Museum of Natural History.
When I began at the Museum I used this blog to talk about my adventures, exploring issues related to digital media and museum-based learning. I featured original interviews, thought pieces, and highlights from my work and those of my colleagues at the AMNH.
Starting in 2020, with the launch of Barry Joseph Consultancy, LLC, I turned this blog into a place to explore digital engagement writ large.
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Category Archives: Theory
Come Hear Me Talk on Games and Museums
At the end of the month MuseumNext will host the Museums, Games & PlaySummit (28 February – 2 March 2022). The goal of this all-online, highly curated affair is to share inspiring ideas and case studies looking at games and … Continue reading
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NYC Youth & Gaming, part 4: Gaming the Future
The second part of this research project, detailed in the previous post, explored the community context of games. The third and final part of the research, explored in this post, is about youth use games to shape their future. More … Continue reading
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Invitation to be an early reader on my 2022 book on digital design in museums
If you haven’t heard, I have a book coming out next year on digital design in museums (from the American Alliance of Museums with Rowman & Littlefield in August, 2022). Having recently completed my first draft, I am now looking … Continue reading
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NYC Youth & Gaming, part 3: Community as Context for Gaming
The first part of this research project, detailed in the previous post, explored what games youth are playing and how they use games to manage their feelings and shape their identity. In other words, games and the self. The second … Continue reading
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NYC Youth & Gaming, part 2: Managing Feelings, Shaping Identities
In this post we will look at how NYC teens use video games to manage their feelings and shape their identity. This is the second of four posts (the previous being Re-centering Around Agency). 5. GAMES THEY PLAY The 20 … Continue reading
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NYC Youth & Gaming, part 1: Re-centering Around Agency
1. TEENS, VIDEO GAMES, & AGENCY Earlier this year I was tasked with learning what roles video games play in the lives of NYC teenagers – specifically Black and brown high school students. I entered the project well aware of … Continue reading
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New Research on Role of Games in Lives of Today’s Teens from Joan Ganz Cooney Center
“We used to love playing Xbox all day. That used to be great. But now that it’s all we really do or have to do, they’re always like, ‘Oh, I’m so bored of Xbox. I just wanna do something else.’” … Continue reading
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I am… Not a Cat: a Meditation on Zoom and Identity
I want to reflect on a man who found himself in a situation where he was distressed upon learning others saw him as a cat. But first… Yesterday I went to the State of the Hive 2021 meeting (HiveNYC.org). As … Continue reading
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An Early Glimpse (2001) at our Current Pseudo-Reality: From ARG to QAnon
As I mentioned in my previous post, The Battle for the Internet, I have been digitizing my decades of family home movies. I was excited to come across this piece from my CNN appearance in June of 2001, talking about … Continue reading
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The Battle for the Internet
When my father passed away last year, I decided to digitize my decades of family home movies. I just finished the task this month. Among this treasure trove of family memories, I also found this video. It is from 1999, … Continue reading
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