‘My Holocaust Experience was Great!’: Entitlements for Participation in Museum Media
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2-8-2016
Keywords
communicative entitlement, entitlements, heritage, media, moral discourse, museums, public sphere, texts, writing
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1177/1750481315623901
Abstract
This interdisciplinary study brings together research on audiences’ participation in the media, and an up-close exploration of communicative entitlement of and for such participation. Viewing visitor books as situated, public media, the study asks two related questions: how museums and institutions that employ this medium frame participation of ‘ordinary’ people in the public sphere, and how, in return, visitors variously articulate their participation. The article first examines the context in which visitor books mediate participation, and how museums frame them so as to invite ‘authentic’ expressions by ‘ordinary’ visitors. The analysis depicts a taxonomy of participation, evincing five types of entitlements found in visitor book texts. These entitlements shed light on how participation in the public sphere is both understood and pursued (performed). The article responds to calls for empirically rich studies on mediation practices and processes. It adds to the literature on communicative entitlements by examining an under-researched hitherto public medium and by illuminating a shift from talk-in-interaction to the context of text-in-interaction.
Was this content written or created while at USF?
Yes
Citation / Publisher Attribution
Discourse & Communication, v. 10, issue 3, p. 274-290.
Scholar Commons Citation
Noy, Chaim, "‘My Holocaust Experience was Great!’: Entitlements for Participation in Museum Media" (2016). Communication Faculty Publications. 702.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/spe_facpub/702
