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Museums and the History of Computing: Objects, Narratives and Practice

Museums and the History of Computing: Objects, Narratives and Practice

Museums and the History of Computing: Objects, Narratives and Practice
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Museums and the History of Computing: Objects, Narratives and Practice Hardback - 2024

by Simone Natale

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  • Title Museums and the History of Computing: Objects, Narratives and Practice
  • Author Simone Natale
  • Binding Hardback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 114
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge
  • Publication date 2024-07-26
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 47625151
  • ISBN 9781032544014 / 1032544015
  • Weight 0.66 lbs (0.30 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.38 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 0.97 cm)
  • Category Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy
  • Library of Congress subjects Digital preservation, Museum exhibits
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2024020595
  • Dewey Decimal Code 507.4
  • Quantity available 5

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From the publisher

Museums and the History of Computing examines the critical role that cultural organizations, such as museums and galleries, play in shaping 'digital heritage' the cultural heritage surrounding computer technology.

Focusing on digital technologies as objects and practices that museums collect, exhibit, and preserve for the future, this book highlights how and why museums play a crucial role in preserving the rich heritage of the digital world, constructing powerful narratives that help make it relevant to the public. It demonstrates that the museum can be a powerful means of safeguarding and interpreting ephemeral and continually changing digital technology, offering new pathways for rethinking the very meaning of digital objects and practices in contemporary societies. It provides practices and strategies for the preservation and exhibition of computing artifacts and ways to accommodate and respond to narratives about histories of computing that circulate in the public arena. Bringing together leading museum and university researchers and practitioners, and mobilizing cross-cutting debates and approaches in areas such as museum studies, cultural heritage, history of technology, anthropology, and media studies, this book challenges us to think critically about what 'digital' is when examined not only as a tool but as a cultural object deserving of attention and a place within the museum.

Museums and the History of Computing is for museum studies students and researchers as well as museum practitioners - especially those with an interest in digital technology and heritage. It will be of interest to researchers and students interested in histories of computing and digital media and in digital media studies.

About the author

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).

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