Full Description
Museums today find themselves within a mediatised society, where everyday life is conducted in a data-full and technology-rich context. In fact, museums are themselves mediatised: they present a uniquely media-centred environment, in which communicative media is a constitutive property of their organisation and of the visitor experience. The Routledge Handbook of Museums, Media and Communication explores what it means to take mediated communication as a key concept for museum studies and as a sensitising lens for media-related museum practice on the ground.
Including contributions from experts around the world, this original and innovative Handbook shares a nuanced and precise understanding of media, media concepts and media terminology, rehearsing new locations for writing on museum media and giving voice to new subject alignments. As a whole, the volume breaks new ground by reframing mediated museum communication as a resource for an inclusive understanding of current museum developments.
The Routledge Handbook of Museums, Media and Communication will appeal to both students and scholars, as well as to practitioners involved in the visioning, design and delivery of mediated communication in the museum. It teaches us not just how to study museums, but how to go about being a museum in today's world.
The book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access at www.taylorfrancis.com. It has been made available under a a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license
Contents
Contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Volume introduction: MEDIA, MEDIATIZATION AND MUSEUMS: A NEW ENSEMBLE
Section 1: FOUNDATIONS
1.0
Section introduction
1.1
Walk-in media: International exhibitions as media space
1.2
The museum as a media producer: Innovation before the
digital age
1.3
Revisiting the utopian promise of interpretive media:
An autoethnographic analysis drawn from art museums, 1991-2017
1.4
Online collections, curatorial agency and machine-assisted curating
1.5
Visitor and audience research in museums
Section 2: ENVIRONMENTS
2.0
Section introduction
2.1
Rethinking museum/community partnerships: Science and natural history museums and the challenges of communicating climate change
2.2
Mobile media, mobility and mobilisation in the current museum field
2.3
Learning and engagement in museum mediascapes
2.4
The museum as an arena for cultural citizenship: Exploring modes of engagement for audience empowerment
2.5
The museum as a charged space: The duality of digital museum communication
Section 3: PRACTICES
3.0
Section introduction
3.1
From elsewhere to everywhere: Evolving the distributed
museum into the pervasive museum
3.2
Digital media ethics and museum communication
3.3
Complexities of collaborating: Understanding and managing differences in collaborative design of museum communication
3.4
Participation in design and changing practices of museum development
Section 4: VISUAL ESSAY
4.0
Incident(al) Readings
Section 5: DIRECTIONS
5.0
Section introduction
5.1
Smart media: Museums in the new data terroir
5.2
The proliferation of aura: Facsimiles, authenticity and digital objects
5.3
Assets, platforms and affordances: The constitutive role of media in the museum
5.4
Feeling the Exhibition: Design for an Immersive and Sensory Exhibition Experience
5.5
Museums and cultural diversity: A persistent challenge
Index
