The edutainment scan: immersive media and its deployment in museums

• This article addresses the usage of immersive media in museum exhibitions, departing from the conviction that to maintain their credibility, museums need to work systematically with source criticism and evidence in mediation based on experiences and involving empathy, affect and sensory aspects of history. The purpose of this article is twofold. First, the article serves as a literature review of research informing the use of this immersive media in museum exhibitions. To this end, the article seeks to defragment a clustered field, wherein digitality pervades almost all heritage domains to provide a museum-specific overview. Second, and more applicable to a general audience, this article seeks to bridge the gap between research-led theory and museum practice. The review provides insight into recent research results that have been structured through six themes, namely technology readiness, immersivity and affect, intelligibility and agency, authenticity, source critique and scholarly contribution, and finally, pedagogy.

Ämnesord

HUMANIORA  -- Annan humaniora -- Övrig annan humaniora (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Other Humanities -- Other Humanities not elsewhere specified (hsv//eng)

HUMANIORA  -- Historia och arkeologi (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- History and Archaeology (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

Swedish museology

immersive media

virtual heritage

digital shift

literature review

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