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  • 1 Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia
Heliyon, 2023 May;9(5):e15835.
PMID: 37206024 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e15835

Abstract

A set of mutations in social, educational, and political roles as well as in the economic contexts of the "arts and cultural organizations" over the past decades have highlighted their need to work on their relationship with audiences. The aim of this paper is to investigate the current debated available in the literature on the "audience development" in four types of "arts and cultural organizations", namely, museums, theatres, libraries and music institutions, with the goal of identifying and comparing the applied strategies by these organizations for their audience development. An exploratory literature review was conducted using the databases: Google Scholar and Semantic Scholar, in addition to the websites of concerned organizations. Nine strategies of "audience development" were identified: Digital Technology, Partnerships, Physical space development, education, audience segmentation, public engagement, audience research and marketing.

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