Exhibiting Information: Developing the Information Age Gallery at the Science Museum.
There is very little published literature on the display of computing technology in museums and galleries. This article reviews a variety of displays, from the early 1970s to the 1990s, to show how computing and communication technologies shifted from a taxonomic approach that inferred an element of...
| Published in: | Information & Culture Vol. 51; no. 1; pp. 1 - 29 |
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University of Texas Press
2016
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