From my understanding of the reading a topic and a theme are different because a topic is a broad area that can contain countless perspectives, and those perspectives can generate themes. When deciding on the direction of an exhibition it is probably more important to focus on a creating a theme. A good theme will give more direction to an exhibition. For our assignment we have to focus on issues in contemporary American society. A topic could be any number of things such as technology, which is very general. A theme could be about the dependency on technology that has developed in a leading first world country. Then the exhibit can work toward exploring the questions like who, what, when, where, and why.
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