Adjusting, interpreting and qualifying a cultural practice : Communicational approach to the museum visit
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description: The thesis contributes to facilitate an understanding of the relation that can be established between a specific experience of culture and a relationship to culture, in the specific case of the museum visit. The notion of adjustment is proposed in order to account for this relation and points to a system of interaction during which the social agent is engaged in an embodied relationship with a dispositif (or apparatus) of communication and interprets the situation by using representations of this situation and of his role as a visitor. Thanks to a detour via the theories of ethnomethodology, of the social representations and of the mediated interactions, the first part shows how the methodological framework of the thesis has been built in order to apprehend the practice of the visitor as it is being deployed. Two case studies have been chosen for this analysis, a temporary exhibition in the galleries of the museum le Louvre, which engages a situation formulated as an experience of a visit; and a pedagogical game on mobile phone, set in the galleries of the museum arts et metiers, which disturbs this previous assumption. The second part then presents an analysis that puts into dialogue the study of the configuration of situations of communication through the dispositifs at play in each of these situations, and the dynamic of their redefinition by the visitors, through a progressive adjustment. The example of the text since it is considered to be a means of mediation with objects and with knowledge, reveals how the visitor adapts to situation that anticipate a double usage (reading and visiting), with a tension between the characterisation of his gesture and of his reading postures, the retextualisation of the propositions and the permanent reformulation of the general project of the visit. The third part consists in looking at how the visitor defines the situation that he is going through, not only from his experience of reading, but also from his general understandi…
identifier: NNT: 2011AVIG1105
issued: 2026-05-11T06:33:01.208262
language: fr
modified: 2026-05-11T06:33:01.208268
contact point: Organization
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keyword: adjustment
keyword: ajustement
keyword: confiance
keyword: culture-mediatique
keyword: dispositif
keyword: exhibition
keyword: exposition
keyword: figure-de-visiteur
keyword: figure-of-the-visitor
keyword: fulfilment-of-a-role
keyword: infoeu-reposemanticsdoctoralthesis
keyword: jeu-pervasif
keyword: lecture
keyword: media-culture
keyword: pervasive-game
keyword: practice-of-visit
keyword: pratique-de-visite
keyword: prise-de-role
keyword: reading
keyword: shsinfohumanities-and-social-scienceslibrary-and-information-sciences
keyword: shsmuseohumanities-and-social-sciencescultural-heritage-and-museology
keyword: text-of-mediation
keyword: texte-de-mediation
keyword: theses
keyword: trust
keyword: visiteur
keyword: visitor
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Adjusting, interpreting and qualifying a cultural practice : Communicational approach to the museum visit
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