Bodies of Interest: Meaning-Making in the Spaces between Expert and Lay Audiences

This paper offers one approach to teaching students in science and technology how to address the complexity of a text. Argenti´s notion of constituencies is used to identify the particular interests of parties that contribute to the understanding and meaning of a communicated message. Drawing on a world-wide museum exhibit, Bodies: the exhibition, the author presents an analysis of how the perspectives of sample constituencies play out in the context of embedded artifacts.