Accessing audiences: visiting visitor books

Macdonald, Sharon

doi:10.29311/mas.v3i3.65

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“…Yet existing research suggests that VBs are discursively intriguing artifacts. Macdonald's (2005) and my own (Noy, 2009(Noy, , 2015 semiotic and ethnographic studies of museum VBs illustrate how these place-sensitive writing surfaces are employed by visitors as stages for public expression. The analysis yielded discoursal categories that distinguish between tourism-related themes (The forest is fantastic.…”

Section: Visitor Books As Situated Discursive Platformsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Writing in Museums

Noy

2015

Written Communication

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The study takes a situated and material approach to texts and writing practices and examines writing ethnographically as it transpires and displayed in museums. The ethnography highlights the richness and sociality embodied in writing practices as well as the ideological, communal, and ritualistic functions that writing and texts serve in cultural institutions. Specifically, I offer a comparative study of visitor books and similar writing platforms in two Jewish heritage museums in the United States. Extended ethnographic observations of visitors' writing activities are augmented by analysis of visitors' texts, which, following Bakhtin, are understood in terms of their addressivity structures or whom they are addressed to. The study shows how visitors' texts amount to collective contributions that are part of museums' heritage display, and that visitors become rhetors when their mode of heritage consumption is the production of texts.

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Section: Visitor Books As Situated Discursive Platformsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Writing in Museums

Noy

2015

Written Communication

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“…17 Visitors' books are a valuable source of information about visitors' attitudes (e.g. Macdonald, 2005;Pantzou 2001). 18 On memory and traumatic experiences, see also Hackett & Rolston, 2009;Zelizer 2002.…”

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By the People, for the People. The Case of a Community Museum of Traumatic Greek Heritage

Pantzou

2015

Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites

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This article will delineate the history and activities of the Museum of Political Exiles of Ai Stratis in Greece. The museum was founded in the 1980s by a group of former inmates who were banished in the North Aegean island of Ai Stratis, a site of political confinement between 1920s and 1960s. Since its inception, the museum has aspired to be a platform of communication, a place of healing that is by the people for the people. The aim here is to examine how this was achieved and what lessons have been learned from the endeavours of an organization that deals with a rather traumatic chapter of modern Greek history. Emphasis will be placed especially on what role the subjects of history have assumed in the design of the permanent exhibition and the educational and cultural activities.

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“…People read entries written by individuals from past visits and write entries, which may possibly be read by "imagined receivers" in the future (Macdonald, 2005, p. 126). These texts are thus valuable resources, yet they have remained under-researched within commercial home literature but also within tourism scholarship at large Macdonald, 2005;Noy, 2008). Accordingly, this paper contributes to scholarship by focusing on an analysis of visitor books.…”

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Visitor Books and Guest-generated Discourses of Hospitality: The Case of theHanok

Choi

Buzinde

Lee

2014

Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research

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This study analyzes visitor book entries as cultural repositories of guest-generated hospitality discourses to understand how guests articulate/narrativize hospitality. Inquiry into visitor book entries offers insight into ways in which tourists render people and place intelligible. Utilizing textual analysis, this study examines discursive entries contained within visitor books displayed at a traditional South Korean hanok guesthouse/commercial home. The findings indicate that tourists' entries could be classified into three emergent categories: Structural Esthetics, Emotions/Affective State, and Inter-personal Engagement. Guests' entries indicated that there was an appreciation for the display of traditional architecture, which facilitated sentiments of relaxation, contentment, tranquility, and homeliness. The hanok is thus regarded as a therapeutic landscape in which positive emotions are nurtured. Guests' entries also showcased evidence of genuine and personalized exchanges with hosts. This study points to the need for further theorizations on the role of indigenous knowledge in informing the performance and reception of hospitality.

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Accessing audiences: visiting visitor books

Cited by 102 publications

References 22 publications

Writing in Museums

Writing in Museums

By the People, for the People. The Case of a Community Museum of Traumatic Greek Heritage

Visitor Books and Guest-generated Discourses of Hospitality: The Case of theHanok

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