The Routledge Handbook of Museums, Media and Communication.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Drotner, Kirsten.

Contributor:

Dziekan, Vince, 1964-

Parry, Ross.

Schrøder, Kim Christian.

Series:

Routledge handbooks

Routledge International Handbooks Ser.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Museums--Technological innovations.

Museums.

Communication in museums.

Museums--Philosophy.

Museum techniques.

Interactive multimedia.

Mass media and culture.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (359 pages).

Place of Publication:

Milton : Routledge, 2018.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; Media, mediatisation and museums: A new ensemble; What is a medium?; Mediatisation; The mediatised museum; A mediatised turn in museum studies; The structure of the volume; References; Part I Foundations; References; Chapter I.1 Walk-in media: International exhibitions as media space; Media visibility; Moving through, doing media; Performing audiences; Media sociality; Exhibitionary media and museums; Notes; References.

Chapter I.2 The museum as media producer: Innovation before the digital ageThe adoption and development of media technologies; Working with collaborators; Motivations for media innovation by museums; Conclusion; References; Chapter I.3 Revisiting the utopian promise of interpretive media: An autoethnographic analysis drawn from art museums, 1991-2017; ICHIM 1991: The Micro Gallery and other early prototypes; Excellence and equity and its applications; Barriers to entry: Technological and editorial; Database versus narrative; Early examples of museum multimedia storytelling.

Intelligent spaces: Points of departure at SFMOMAThe grail of location-sensing: "Meeting people where they are" shifts to the mobile space; The Gartner Hype Curve; When digital alone is not enough: Blended solutions; Conclusion; Acknowledgement; References; Chapter I.4 Online collections, curatorial agency and machine-assisted curating; Curatorial agency within the museum; Connecting to a global search engine; Entering a culture of consumption; Machine-assisted curation; Curatorial agency in future; References; Chapter I.5 Visitor and audience research in museums.

The turn towards visitors and audiencesEarly evolutions of visitor research in museums; Audiences in media and communication research; Museum visitors and audiences in the digital age; Seeking the forest and the trees; What are the implications of the move to digital audiencemeasurement?; Where next for audience research in museums?; References; Part II Environments; References; Chapter II. 1 Rethinking museum/community partnerships: Science and natural history museums and the challenges of communicating climate change; Museums and communities.

Climate change in museums: Lessons from exhibitionsA fine line between urgent and scary: The American Museum of Natural History; California Academy of Sciences: Keep it positive and focus onmitigation; Tekniska Museet: Showing the system; Science Museum, London: Science and uncertainty; The museum audience; Museums communicating climate change: Beyond the exhibition; Urban learning networks as community partners; Rethinking outreach: Testing different communication strategies; Participatory, relevant, connected; Extending the work; Notes; References.

Notes:

Print version record.

Chapter II. 2 Mobile media, mobility and mobilisation in the current museum field.

Other Format:

Print version: Drotner, Kirsten. Routledge Handbook of Museums, Media and Communication.

ISBN:

9781317197447

1317197445

9781317197430

1317197437

9781317197423

1317197429

9781315560168

131556016X

OCLC:

1066188636

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.