Instagram at the museum: communicating the museum experience through social photo sharing
Instagram at the museum: communicating the museum experience through social photo sharing
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博物馆中的 Instagram:通过社交照片分享传达博物馆体验
DOI:
10.1145/2470654.2466243
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发表时间:
2013
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通讯作者:
Beata Jungselius
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作者:
A. Weilenmann;Thomas Hillman;Beata Jungselius
The everyday use of smartphones with high quality built-in cameras has lead to an increase in museum visitors' use of these devices to document and share their museum experiences. In this paper, we investigate how one particular photo sharing application, Instagram, is used to communicate visitors' experiences while visiting a museum of natural history. Based on an analysis of 222 instagrams created in the museum, as well as 14 interviews with the visitors who created them, we unpack the compositional resources and concerns contributing to the creation of instagrams in this particular context. By re-categorizing and re-configuring the museum environment, instagrammers work to construct their own narratives from their visits. These findings are then used to discuss what emerging multimedia practices imply for the visitors' engagement with and documentation of museum exhibits. Drawing upon these practices, we discuss the connection between online social media dialogue and the museum site.