Museums and the History of Computing : Objects, Narratives and Practice (Hardcover)

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