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Museums and the history of computing : objects, narratives and practice / edited by Simone Natale, Petrina Foti and Ross Parry.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Critical perspectives on museums and digital technology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science museums.
- Museum exhibits.
- Digital preservation--History.
- Digital preservation.
- Computer science--History.
- Computer science.
- Information technology--History.
- Information technology.
- Electronic data processing--History.
- Electronic data processing.
- Museums--Data processing.
- Museums.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 113 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2025.
- Biography/History:
- Simone Natale is an associate professor at the University of Turin, Italy, and an editor of Media, Culture and Society. He is the author of Deceitful Media: Artificial Intelligence and Social Life after the Turing Test (Oxford University Press, 2021). Petrina Foti is a museologist and scholar focused on the rise of digital information and technology and the resulting impact on both museums and the wider world. She is the author of Collecting and Exhibiting Computer-based Technology: Curatorial Expertise at the Smithsonian Museums (Routledge, 2018). Ross Parry is a professor of museum technology at the University of Leicester, and the inaugural Director of its Institute for Digital Culture. He is co-founder the UK's Museum Data Service, and co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Museums, Media and Communication (Routledge 2019).
- Contents:
- PART I: Lives narrated through computer history
- Unseen connections: Exhibiting the global stories of cellular telephony at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History / Joshua Bell
- Lives on shelves: Constructing histories of computing in the museum store / Simona Casonato
- Provocation no. 1: Imparting the history of 'intangible things' / Mai Sugimoto
- PART II: The life inscribed on computer technology
- Restorations, replicas, and emulations in a museum of computing / Martin Campbell-Kelly & Mark Priestley
- Social media enters the museum: Collecting WeChat at the Victoria & Albert Museum / Corinna Gardner, Juhee Park & Natalie Kane
- Provocation no. 2: All of this belongs to us / Andrea Lipps
- PART III: Living computing history collections
- Mediators, media and meaning: Curating digital objects at the science museum / Tilly Blyth & Rachel Boon
- Unsettling the narrative: Quantum computing in museum environments / Petrina Foti
- Provocation no. 3: Why is the computer different? / Kimon Keramidas
- PART IV: Lived practice of computing history
- The CHM stack: Experimentation for digital and computing heritage / David Brock, Hansen Hsu, Marc Weber & Dag Spicer
- Beyond Point and Click: Calling out expediency in museums' histories of computing / Lisa McGerty
- Provocation no. 4: Decolonizing Computing Histories in Museums / Lara Ratnaraja.
- Notes:
- “Routledge Focus” -- from cover.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 22, 2024).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Museums and the history of computing
- ISBN:
- 9781003424703
- 1003424708
- 9781040127889
- 1040127886
- 9781040127841
- 1040127843
- Publisher Number:
- 40032424847
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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