The Routledge Handbook of Museums, Media and Communication

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Contents List of figures List of tables List of contributors Acknowledgements Volume introduction: MEDIA, MEDIATIZATION AND MUSEUMS: A NEW ENSEMBLE The editors Section 1: FOUNDATIONS 1.0 Section introduction The editors 1.1 Walk-in media: International exhibitions as media space Anders Ekstroem 1.2 The museum as a media producer: Innovation before the digital age Peter Pavement 1.3 Revisiting the utopian promise of interpretive media: An autoethnographic analysis drawn from art museums, 1991-2017 Peter Samis 1.4 Online collections, curatorial agency and machine-assisted curating Bodil Axelsson 1.5 Visitor and audience research in museums Susan Anderson Section 2: ENVIRONMENTS 2.0 Section introduction The editors 2.1 Rethinking museum/community partnerships: Science and natural history museums and the challenges of communicating climate change Karen Knutson 2.2 Mobile media, mobility and mobilisation in the current museum field Rikke Haller Baggesen 2.3 Learning and engagement in museum mediascapes Palmyre Pierroux 2.4 The museum as an arena for cultural citizenship: Exploring modes of engagement for audience empowerment Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt and Pille Runnel 2.5 The museum as a charged space: The duality of digital museum communication Bjarki Valtysson and Nanna Holdgaard Section 3: PRACTICES 3.0 Section introduction The editors 3.1 From elsewhere to everywhere: Evolving the distributed museum into the pervasive museum Vince Dziekan and Nancy Proctor 3.2 Digital media ethics and museum communication Jenny Kidd 3.3 Complexities of collaborating: Understanding and managing differences in collaborative design of museum communication Line Vestergaard Knudsen and Anne Rorbaek Olesen 3.4 Participation in design and changing practices of museum development Dagny Stuedahl Section 4: VISUAL ESSAY 4.0 Incident(al) Readings Vince Dziekan Section 5: DIRECTIONS 5.0 Section introduction The editors 5.1 Smart media: Museums in the new data terroir Lauren Vargas 5.2 The proliferation of aura: Facsimiles, authenticity and digital objects Sarah Kenderdine and Andrew Yip 5.3 Assets, platforms and affordances: The constitutive role of media in the museum Kathleen Pirrie Adams 5.4 Feeling the Exhibition: Design for an Immersive and Sensory Exhibition Experience Maholo Uchida and Jingyu Peng 5.5 Museums and cultural diversity: A persistent challenge Ien Ang Index