Museums and the History of Computing

Museums and the History of Computing

Objects, Narratives and Practice

Foti, Petrina; Natale, Simone; Parry, Ross

Taylor & Francis Ltd

07/2024

160

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9781032544014

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Introduction; PART I: Lives narrated through computer history; Chapter 1. Unseen connections: Exhibiting the global stories of cellular telephony at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History; Chapter 2. Lives on shelves: Constructing histories of computing in the museum store; Provocation no. 1: Imparting the history of 'intangible things'; PART II: The life inscribed on computer technology; Chapter 3. Restorations, replicas, and emulations in a museum of computing; Chapter 4. Social media enters the museum: Collecting WeChat at the Victoria & Albert museum; Provocation no. 2: All of this belongs to us; PART III: Living computing history collections; Chapter 5: Mediators, media and meaning: Curating digital objects at the science museum ; Chapter 6: Unsettling the narrative: Quantum computing in museum environments; Provocation no. 3: Why is the computer different?; PART IV: Lived practice of computing history; Chapter 7: The CHM stack: Experimentation for digital and computing heritage; Chapter 8: Beyond Point and Click: Calling out expediency in museums' histories of computing; Provocation no. 4: Decolonizing Computing Histories in Museums
Museums;Computing;digital technologies;digital media;technologies;cultural heritage