{"product_id":"9783032330123","title":"Museums of Computing Stewardship of Digital Heritage","description":"\u003ch1\u003eMuseums of Computing\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eStewardship of Digital Heritage\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003ePeter Krapp\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eSocial Science \/ Anthropology \/ Cultural \u0026amp; Social\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book analyses museums of computing in several pivotal dimensions. As institutions of cultural memory, they continue to play major roles in how we understand our mediated situation; there are many “missing narratives” in media history, and museums have been part of the response to those challenges. Yet media technology advances quickly, and a lot of the discourse about media is hype about present and future perspectives – it can seem as if rapid changes are the only constant, especially in computing. As museums became institutions that associate objects with learning to help us understand the world, they responded to the needs of the cultures that create them - but digital media pose a range of difficult questions in this nexus. Museums help constitute our collective understanding of the history of computing, and by the same token networked computing has come to complicate the role of museums. Examining the impressive expansion of the museum model also requires analysis of the extent to which the legacy of the museum is challenged by assumptions about obsolescence, forgetting, erasure in digital culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePeter Krapp is Professor of Film \u0026amp; Media Studies at the University of California, Irvine, USA. His research and teaching focus on the history of computing and on digital culture. Main publications include \u003cem\u003eMedium Cool\u003c\/em\u003e (2002), \u003cem\u003eDeja Vu: Aberrations of Cultural Memory\u003c\/em\u003e (2004), \u003cem\u003eNoise Channels: Glitch and Error in Digital Culture \u003c\/em\u003e(2011), and the \u003cem\u003eHandbook Language-Culture-Communication\u003c\/em\u003e ( 2013). The latest is a book on \u003cem\u003eComputing Legacies: Digital Cultures of Simulation\u003c\/em\u003e (2024). \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e22 November 2026\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSpringer Nature Switzerland\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePalgrave Macmillan\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9783032330123\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50806383345804,"sku":"9783032330123","price":40.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9783032330123","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}