Articulating the visitor in public knowledge institutions

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11230%2F13%3A10196452" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11230/13:10196452 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2012.744325" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2012.744325</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2012.744325" target="_blank" >10.1080/17405904.2012.744325</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Articulating the visitor in public knowledge institutions

Original language description

This article analyses visitor articulations used by managers and key documents of three Estonian public knowledge institutions. Three visitor articulations were identified in the analysed material, namely visitors as the people, as target groups, and asstakeholders, each related in this article to a specific body of literature. These articulations are co-existent semantic tools, used by public knowledge institutions to make sense of the complex relationships with people that cross the boundaries protecting the institutions from the outside world(s). They show how Estonian museum and library culture has sought to balance the more traditional educational paradigm with marketing-driven and democratic paradigms. Despite these changes, the article also argues that all three articulations have a significant role to play in organising the institutional governance of the visitors, enabling visitors to, and disabling them from, performing specific practices. Although the third visitor articula

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AJ - Literature, mass media, audio-visual activities

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2013

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Critical Discourse Studies

ISSN

1740-5904

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

10

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

18

Pages from-to

136-153

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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