O'Hagan, L. orcid.org/0000-0001-5554-4492 (2021) Instagram as an exhibition space: reflections on digital remediation in the time of COVID-19. Museum Management and Curatorship, 36 (6). pp. 610-631. ISSN 0964-7775
Abstract
This paper explores the impact of COVID-19 on a planned physical exhibition – Prize Books and Politics: Rethinking Working-Class Life in Edwardian Britain – and the experience of transforming it into a digital exhibition through the platform of Instagram. Using feedback from visitors in the form of likes, comments and surveys, I reflect on the exhibition in terms of its scope, content, visitor experience and overall success. I also outline the various potentials, constraints and opportunities of Instagram as an exhibition space and put forward recommendations on how it can be used to best advantage not as a replacement for physical exhibitions, but rather as a complement that can attract new audiences, capture real-time feedback and, thus, add multiple voices and stories to museum objects.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | Instagram; exhibition; visitor experience; social media; digital remediation; museum |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Sociological Studies (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number Economic and Social Research Council ES/T009012/1 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 09 Nov 2021 11:01 |
Last Modified: | 15 Mar 2022 15:06 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/09647775.2021.2001362 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:179796 |