Numinous Experiences With Museum Objects

Latham, Kiersten F.

doi:10.1080/10645578.2013.767728

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“…Moves seamlessly from physical digital environment (Latham, 2009;Weigle, 2013) and moves seamlessly from the digital to the physical and back to digital or vice versa (Chan et al, 2006;Druin, 2009;Rogers et al, 2005;Sharples et al, 2005). The factors facilitating point of engagement and sustained engagement were described under RQ-1.…”

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Use of Touch Devices by Toddlers or Preschoolers: Observations and Findings from a Single-Case Study

Agarwal¹

2014

Library and Information Science

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Section: Process Of Device Usementioning

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Use of Touch Devices by Toddlers or Preschoolers: Observations and Findings from a Single-Case Study

Agarwal¹

2014

Library and Information Science

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“…In order to illustrate a "predominantly aesthetic" (Rosenblatt, 1994) document transaction, my example is of a poem, an encounter found at the aesthetic end of the continuum. It comes from a study I conducted in 2009 (Latham, 2009;Latham, 2013) about people's deeply felt encounters with museum objects. Numinous is a term that comes from religious studies (Otto, 1917) -a "non-rational" state of mind that is experienced qualitatively, a feeling of power, transcendence, majesty.…”

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Experiencing documents

Latham

2014

Journal of Documentation

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Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to invite further consideration of how people experience documents. By offering a model from Reader Response theory -Louise Rosenblatt's Transactional Theory of Reading -as well as examples from research on numinous experiences with museum objects, the author hopes to open further avenues of information behavior studies about people and documents. The goal is to incorporate more aspects of lived experience and the aesthetic into practice with and research of documents. Design/methodology/approach -Theoretical scope includes Louise Rosenblatt's Transactional Theory of Reading, John Dewey's concepts of transaction and experience and lived experience concepts/methods derived from phenomenology. Findings -Rosenblatt's Transactional Theory explicates the continuum of reader response, from the efferent to the aesthetic, stating that the act of "reading" (experience) involves a transaction between the reader (person) and the text (document). Each transaction is a unique experience in which the reader and text continuously act and are acted upon by each other. This theory of reading translates well into the realm of investigating the lived experience of documents and in that context, a concrete example and suggested strategies for future study are provided. Originality/value -This paper provides a holistic approach to understanding lived experience with documents and introduces the concept of person-document transaction. It inserts the wider notion of document into a more specific theory of reading, expanding its use beyond the borders of text, print and literature. By providing an example of real document experiences and applying Rosenblatt's continuum, the value of this paper is in opening new avenues for information behavior inquiries.

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“…She is the author of recent article “Museum Object as Document: Using Buckland's Information Concepts to Understand Museum Experiences” (2012) in the Journal of Documentation . Her dissertation Numinous Experiences with Museum Objects (Latham, 2009) explored the meanings made by people who have had deeply moving experiences with museum objects. Dr. Latham will provide The View from Museum Studies .…”

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The concept formerly known as information (the panel)

Hartel

Pollock

Noone

2013

Proc of Assoc for Info

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This session introduces a new approach to the concept of information, utilizing an arts‐informed, visual approach. 137 graduate students from a North American iSchool were asked “What is information?” and responded by drawing upon a 4” by 4” piece of paper, coined an “iSquare.” The drawings of information (Figure 1) were analyzed using compositional and thematic analysis techniques adapted from precedent visual studies. The results include the identification of the most common graphical representations used to express information, as well as three themes pertaining to the social, technological, and “informational” dimensions of information. This panel employs the iSquare study and its outcomes as a springboard to engage – afresh – the concept of information today. After the original research is reported, invited experts from information science, museum studies, and social epistemology will offer commentary. “The Concept Formerly Known as Information” is a riff on the antics of American singer‐songwriter Prince, who in 1993 changed his name to an unpronounceable glyph and was called (for a short time) “The Artist Formerly Known as Prince.” This panel seeks a similar jolt to the status‐quo when the concept of information is transformed from word to image.

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Numinous Experiences With Museum Objects

Cited by 61 publications

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Use of Touch Devices by Toddlers or Preschoolers: Observations and Findings from a Single-Case Study

Use of Touch Devices by Toddlers or Preschoolers: Observations and Findings from a Single-Case Study

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