Objects, Words, and Bodies in Space: Bringing Materiality into Cultural Analysis

Griswold, Wendy; Mangione, Gemma; McDonnell, Terence E.

doi:10.1007/s11133-013-9264-6

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“…The importance of the arrangement of the material environment in consumption settings-and cultural intermediaries' role in this arranging-has been noted by cultural sociologists (Bartram 2017;Grazian 2012;Griswold et al 2013), but this analysis is the first to consider cultural mediation and materiality in home buying, and as such, reveals a dynamic cultural process that influences this socially and economically significant purchase.…”

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“…Sociologists have recently brought attention to the role of the material environment in shaping how people experience and interpret cultural objects (Babon 2006;Grazian 2012;Griswold, Mangione, and McDonnell 2013;McDonnell 2010). An encounter with a cultural object does not lead to one, predictable interpretation on the part of the audience or consumer (McDonnell 2010).…”

Section: Connecting Culture Materiality and Experience In Selling A mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As cultural intermediaries work to influence their clients or consumers, their efforts are grounded in and constrained by the conventions of the type of space in which they are working (Grazian 2012;Griswold et al 2013). Conventions help people anticipate and interpret what kinds of things they will experience or be expected to do in a particular context.…”

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“…In a museum, convention holds that all the objects on display have been recognized as bona fide art, conversation should be hushed, and art should be looked at-but not touched. Conventions help visitors make sense of the space, so curators and artists may play off those conventions to help convey the meanings and experiences they desire to evoke (Griswold et al 2013). This principle holds for other cultural intermediaries attempting to construct experiences for visitors or clients; whether curating museums (Bartram 2017;Griswold 1981;Jansen 2008;Turner 2012), designing zoos (Grazian 2012), planning amusement parks (Ellis and Rossman 2008), constructing tourist attractions (Cohen 1988;Hayes and MacLeod 2016), or managing shopping experiences (Iyer and Kuksov 2010;Tsai 2005), cultural intermediaries across industries use the material environment to construct experiences for their clients.…”

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Feels Like Home: Home Staging, Materiality, and Embodied Consumption

Vercel¹

2018

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2018

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“…Teachers demonstrate the bounds around signal and noise by ignoring or engaging particular sounds from the orientations of the room. COGNITION: Meaning is made through sensory interactions with stuff in the environment (Griswold, Mangione, and McDonnell 2013;Harvey 2010;McDonnell 2010). For example, When people interpret sound objects, they generally associate sounds with familiar, mechanical causes (Dibben 2001).…”

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Variations in Music Education Curriculum and the Organization of Listening

Klett¹

2018

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Sociologists argue that we learn evaluative skills, such as those to distinguish qualities of music, through practical knowledge. Yet sociologists have not asked how we understand those sonic events as musical in the first place. Through nine months of semi-structured observations in six elementary school music classrooms, I examine how music education draws symbolic boundaries around musical sound. I find that variations in curriculum produce different organizational practices in the classroom. These practices develop what is a basic sensory skill -listening -in very different ways. I identify four dimensions of teacher performance that support these differences: authorized sound-makers, constrained movement, enforced perspectives, and selected attention. These variations in music education produce contrasting performances for recognizing musical sound.

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Chaos, expansion, and contraction: The information worlds of depression patients during theCOVID‐19 pandemic lockdown

Bao

Peng

2023

Asso for Info Science & Tech

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Although there have been several studies of people's information behaviors during the COVID‐19 epidemic, the information practices of a specific group of people—those with depression—have been neglected. This study reports on qualitative interviews with 24 participants to explore the information practices of people living with depression during the pandemic lockdown. We use the theory of information worlds and the concept of transition to understand the phases of chaos, expansion, and contraction that the information worlds of this group present during the lockdown, and examine the interrelationship between the information worlds and the individual's transition experiences during specific periods. Our results show that, first, emotion, body, and embodiment play key roles in the individual's information worlds, while individuals' information practices are regulated by the economic environment, group norms, and other social circumstances. Second, government‐level information, the volunteer community, social media, and nonhuman objects further impact participants' information practices. We suggest that health management strategies need to have different priorities at different stages of the transition, and attention should be paid to the provision of emotional information support systems during the pandemic lockdown.

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Objects, Words, and Bodies in Space: Bringing Materiality into Cultural Analysis

Cited by 98 publications

References 51 publications

Feels Like Home: Home Staging, Materiality, and Embodied Consumption

Feels Like Home: Home Staging, Materiality, and Embodied Consumption

Variations in Music Education Curriculum and the Organization of Listening

Chaos, expansion, and contraction: The information worlds of depression patients during theCOVID‐19 pandemic lockdown

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