Dimitra Christidou
Biographic Data
| ID | 300211 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dimitra Christidou |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dimitra |
| FAMILY NAME | Christidou |
| SIGNATURE | CHRISTIDOU D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oslo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9965-2871 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Multimodality and museums: Innovative research methods and interpretive frameworks
Alone together? Solitary and shared visiting practices of pairs in the art museum
As most visitors attend museums accompanied, this paper investigates visiting practices in the art museum by asking: How do visitors, coming as a group of two, explore the exhibition space and reflect upon their visit?The paper draws on an empirical study at the Austrian Gallery Belvedere with data collected through the Visitracker app, combining Tracking and Timing, survey, and Social Meaning Mapping.Our findings show how the entanglement of spa…
Obstacles and challenges identified by practitioners of non-formal science learning activities in Europe
Despite the increasing demand for non-formal science learning activities, few studies report on practitioners' perspectives and experiences with designing and implementing such activities worldwide. This paper focuses on their challenges by drawing upon twenty-two interviews with practitioners involved in diverse science learning activities in various non-formal settings in seven European countries. By including diverse activities and settings, t…
Social Meaning Mapping as a Means of Exploring Visitors’ Practices in the Museum
This article introduces Social Meaning Mapping (SMM), a digital qualitative tool embedded in the Visitracker tablet-app. SMM is designed to be used by visitors post-visit to recount their experience in a museum room verbally and visually by marking it on an illustrated floor plan, using several paint tools. The app records their verbal and visual input. This article details the theoretical underpinnings of the tool and exemplifies its use through…
Art, touch and meaning making: An Analysis of Multisensory Interpretation in the Museum
This paper presents a multisensory perspective on art interpretation, with a focus on touch as interpretive resource. The context for the study was an art museum exhibition curated to allow touch-based interactions with modernist sculptures. In the first part of the study, visitors’ interactions with the sculptures were analysed to identify ‘sensing patterns.’ In the second part of the study, data were collected from consecutively staged interpre…
Museum encounters: A Choreography of Visitors' Bodies in Interaction
By viewing the museum experience as inextricably linked to an interactive nexus of bodies and objects arranged in the museum space, this paper foregrounds the significance of movement in the shaping of museum encounters. Informed by the fields of dance, symbolic interactionism and multimodal social semiotics, it introduces a conceptualisation of visitors’ movement as choreography unfolding either in compliance with the museum ‘script’ (scripted c…
Art on the move: The role of joint attention in visitors' encounters with artworks
Children's 'eye views' of an archaeological site: A multimodal social semiotic approach to children's drawings
This paper presents eight-year-old children's 'eye views' of the archaeological site of the Agora in Athens, Greece, based on drawings made during an educational programme on site. Complementing a significant body of research on drawings, we introduce a multimodal social semiotic perspective to explore drawings as 'designed' accounts of children's 'eye views'. We argue that each account arises as an agentive response to their interests and prompt…
Seeing and Being Seen: The Multimodality of Museum Spectatorship
This article argues that museum visiting and the act of 'spectatorship', both of which are often assumed to be ocularcentric, are multimodal events. Anchored in Goffman's dramaturgy and frame analysis theory, as well as Kress's multimodal and social semiotic theory of representation and communication, this article presents an apposite interpretative and methodological framework to account for what has not been widely addressed by museum studies; …
Without You I'm Nothing: ” A Review of Lawler's Identity: Sociological Perspectives
Art, touch and meaning making: An Analysis of Multisensory Interpretation in the Museum
This paper presents a multisensory perspective on art interpretation, with a focus on touch as interpretive resource. The context for the study was an art museum exhibition curated to allow touch-based interactions with modernist sculptures. In the first part of the study, visitors’ interactions with the sculptures were analysed to identify ‘sensing patterns.’ In the second part of the study, data were collected from consecutively staged interpre…
Seeing and Being Seen: The Multimodality of Museum Spectatorship
This article argues that museum visiting and the act of 'spectatorship', both of which are often assumed to be ocularcentric, are multimodal events. Anchored in Goffman's dramaturgy and frame analysis theory, as well as Kress's multimodal and social semiotic theory of representation and communication, this article presents an apposite interpretative and methodological framework to account for what has not been widely addressed by museum studies; …
Museum encounters: A Choreography of Visitors' Bodies in Interaction
By viewing the museum experience as inextricably linked to an interactive nexus of bodies and objects arranged in the museum space, this paper foregrounds the significance of movement in the shaping of museum encounters. Informed by the fields of dance, symbolic interactionism and multimodal social semiotics, it introduces a conceptualisation of visitors’ movement as choreography unfolding either in compliance with the museum ‘script’ (scripted c…
Without You I'm Nothing: ” A Review of Lawler's Identity: Sociological Perspectives
Seeing and Being Seen: The Multimodality of Museum Spectatorship
This article argues that museum visiting and the act of 'spectatorship', both of which are often assumed to be ocularcentric, are multimodal events. Anchored in Goffman's dramaturgy and frame analysis theory, as well as Kress's multimodal and social semiotic theory of representation and communication, this article presents an apposite interpretative and methodological framework to account for what has not been widely addressed by museum studies; …
Art on the move: The role of joint attention in visitors' encounters with artworks
Children's 'eye views' of an archaeological site: A multimodal social semiotic approach to children's drawings
This paper presents eight-year-old children's 'eye views' of the archaeological site of the Agora in Athens, Greece, based on drawings made during an educational programme on site. Complementing a significant body of research on drawings, we introduce a multimodal social semiotic perspective to explore drawings as 'designed' accounts of children's 'eye views'. We argue that each account arises as an agentive response to their interests and prompt…
Art, touch and meaning making: An Analysis of Multisensory Interpretation in the Museum
This paper presents a multisensory perspective on art interpretation, with a focus on touch as interpretive resource. The context for the study was an art museum exhibition curated to allow touch-based interactions with modernist sculptures. In the first part of the study, visitors’ interactions with the sculptures were analysed to identify ‘sensing patterns.’ In the second part of the study, data were collected from consecutively staged interpre…
Museum encounters: A Choreography of Visitors' Bodies in Interaction
By viewing the museum experience as inextricably linked to an interactive nexus of bodies and objects arranged in the museum space, this paper foregrounds the significance of movement in the shaping of museum encounters. Informed by the fields of dance, symbolic interactionism and multimodal social semiotics, it introduces a conceptualisation of visitors’ movement as choreography unfolding either in compliance with the museum ‘script’ (scripted c…
Social Meaning Mapping as a Means of Exploring Visitors’ Practices in the Museum
This article introduces Social Meaning Mapping (SMM), a digital qualitative tool embedded in the Visitracker tablet-app. SMM is designed to be used by visitors post-visit to recount their experience in a museum room verbally and visually by marking it on an illustrated floor plan, using several paint tools. The app records their verbal and visual input. This article details the theoretical underpinnings of the tool and exemplifies its use through…
Obstacles and challenges identified by practitioners of non-formal science learning activities in Europe
Despite the increasing demand for non-formal science learning activities, few studies report on practitioners' perspectives and experiences with designing and implementing such activities worldwide. This paper focuses on their challenges by drawing upon twenty-two interviews with practitioners involved in diverse science learning activities in various non-formal settings in seven European countries. By including diverse activities and settings, t…
Multimodality and museums: Innovative research methods and interpretive frameworks
Alone together? Solitary and shared visiting practices of pairs in the art museum
As most visitors attend museums accompanied, this paper investigates visiting practices in the art museum by asking: How do visitors, coming as a group of two, explore the exhibition space and reflect upon their visit?The paper draws on an empirical study at the Austrian Gallery Belvedere with data collected through the Visitracker app, combining Tracking and Timing, survey, and Social Meaning Mapping.Our findings show how the entanglement of spa…
Sociology (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Museums and Cultural Heritage (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Visual arts (7 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Digital Storytelling and Education (3 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works)