- Members - lists.sigcis.org

Internet Histories, Volume 8, Issue 1-2, March - June 2024 is online
by Asger Harlung 10 Jun '24

10 Jun '24

To whom it may concern, The Editorial Staff of Internet Histories is pleased to announce that Internet Histories, Volume 8, Issue 1-2, March - June 2024 is now available online. This is a special issue: "Museums on the Web" Five articles are open access, and one is free for a limited time. The double issue may be accessed here: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rint20/8/1-2 Kind regards on behalf of the editors, Asger Harlung Editorial Assistant, Internet Histories - - - In this issue: Editorial Editorial: Museums on the Web | Open Access Karin de Wild & Nadezhda Povroznik Research Article Early virtual science museums: when the technology is not mature Jonathan P. Bowen, Ann Borda, Giuliano Gaia & Stefania Boiano5 Interview Preserving the international museum of women: an interview with Marie Williams Chant Ismini Kyritsis & Karin de Wild Research Articles Accessing the artwork in covid-19: loss, recovery and reimagination | Open Access Amanda J. Tinker An analysis of the role of digital technology in the online exhibition of the art museum in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area during the COVID-19 pandemic Minying Zhang & Peng Liu Header/footer gallery: creating and sustaining an online only art gallery Rene Alberto G. Cepeda, Ph.D. & Constanza Salazar, Ph.D. Interview Digital Pierrot Museum from Pristina to the Moon: an interview with Willred Dallto Erik Da Silva Research Articles Rethinking openness: a social constructivist approach to the promises of the new museology | Free for a limited time Tiancheng Leo Cao How “open” are Australian museums? A review through the lens of copyright governance | Open Access Paul Longley Arthur, Lydia Hearn, Isabel Smith & Nikos Koutras Museums’ digital identity: key components | Open Access Nadezhda Povroznik Framing digital identities through social media in museums Maria Paula Arias A diachronic cluster analysis of Danish museum websites | Open Access Mette Skov & Tanja Svarre Book Reviews The Modem World: A Pre-History of Social Media By Kevin Driscoll, Yale University Press, 2022, Hardcover, 328 pp., ISBN: 9780300248142 $28.00 Katie Mackinnon Concealing for Freedom: The Making of Encryption, Secure Messaging and Digital Liberties By Ksenia Ermoshina and Francesca Musiani, Manchester, UK: Mattering Press, 2022, 272 pp., ISBN 9781912729227, £16.00 Alice Whelan

1 0

Information & Culture seeking book reviews
by james.hodges＠rutgers.edu 05 Jun '24

05 Jun '24

Greetings! Please excuse my cross-posting. I am the Book Reviews Editor for Information & Culture (https://www.infoculturejournal.org/) I’m writing because we are currently looking for new book reviewers. Reviews are generally around 1,000 words in length, written for a broad academic audience. *If you’re interested, please email reviews(a)ischool.utexas.edu <reviews(a)ischool.utexas.edu>* with your area of expertise and any other relevant information. You are free to pitch any book within the areas of information, media, and communication (published within the last year), or to express interest in one of the titles below. Please note that we often receive quite a large response when we make these solicitations, so I can't guarantee that you will be matched with your top choice-- but I am always looking for new reviewers, and I am very happy to record your areas of expertise so that we can reach out with other potential books of interest. Here is a partial list of books we're currently looking to review, with an emphasis on books that I think may be of interest to this community: "Averting the Digital Dark Age: How Archivists, Librarians, and Technologists Built the Web a Memory" by Ian Milligan https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/53671/averting-digital-dark-age "The Intimate Life of Computers: Digitizing Domesticity in the 1980s" by Reem Hilu https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-intimate-life-of-compute… "Cyberlibertarianism: The Right-Wing Politics of Digital Technology" by David Golumbia https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/cyberlibertarianism "A History of Fake Things on the Internet" by Walter J. Scheirer https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=35460 "Inside IBM: Lessons of a Corporate Culture in Action" by James Cortada https://cup.columbia.edu/book/inside-ibm/9780231213004 I look forward to working with you! Sincerely, James A. Hodges

1 0

The Chinese Computer event at CHM with Tom Mullaney June 18
by Hansen Hsu 05 Jun '24

05 Jun '24

Hi everyone, Here is an upcoming event at the Computer History Museum that people might be interested in. You can watch it online. Register here: <https://computerhistory.org/events/the-chinese-computer/> [chm_live_chinese-computer_website_924x551.jpg] The Chinese Computer<https://computerhistory.org/events/the-chinese-computer/> computerhistory.org<https://computerhistory.org/events/the-chinese-computer/> ......................................................... Hansen Hsu, Ph.D. Curator, Software History Center Computer History Museum he/him 1401 N. Shoreline Blvd. Mountain View, CA 94043 (650) 810-1880 direct (650) 810-1010 main (650) 284-6254 mobile (650) 810-1055 fax hhsu(a)computerhistory.org<mailto:hhsu@computerhistory.org> Follow Us: CHM.org<https://computerhistory.org/> I Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/computerhistory> I Twitter<http://www.twitter.com/computerhistory> I YouTube<http://www.youtube.com/computerhistory> I Subscribe to Our Newsletter<https://www.computerhistory.org/subscribe>

1 0

New Book: Building SimCity: How to Put the World in a Machine
by Chaim Gingold 04 Jun '24

04 Jun '24

Dear SIGCIS, I’m excited to announce the release of my new book, Building SimCity: How to Put the World in a Machine <https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547482/building-simcity/>, available today, as part of MIT Press’s Game Histories series. The book delves deeply into SimCity, but ranges widely into the broader history of computer simulation, which is analyzed as a social and cultural practice. This approach to game history has a strong STS bent and is informed by the work of Michael Mahoney and many scholars from within the SIGCIS community. Building SimCity includes histories of cellular automata and system dynamics (two simulation traditions SimCity liberally borrows from), studying the mechanisms by which simulation practices evolve and spread, and the ways in which simulation makers function as interdisciplinarians, brokering relationships between different communities and worldviews. SimCity, for instance, enabled Maxis to establish ties between the worlds of high science (like the Santa Fe Institute), education, popular culture (like Nintendo), enterprise business, venture capital, and more. As a result, Maxis titles (like SimAnt, SimEarth, and The Sims) refracted vanguard science, bringing esoteric topics such as complexity science, artificial life, and embodied cognition to popular audiences, while simultaneously advancing the agendas of its partners in capital and academia. For those with US addresses, get a 30% discount today, June 4 (launch day), through Penguin Random House <https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/744393/building-simcity-by-chaim-g…> with the code PUBDAY30. Afterwards, get 20% off with READMIT20. Cheers, Chaim ••• “Much more than a book about SimCity, or even about video games, its large scope includes the invention of interactive computer graphics for simulations of all kinds, including the 'beyond reality' universes of games. Highly recommended!” — Alan Kay, winner of the 2003 ACM Turing Award “I learned more about the history and practice of simulation from this book than I ever knew. While I was usually stuck in the trees when designing SimCity, Gingold rises above to see the entire forest." — Will Wright, designer of SimCity and The Sims; co-founder, Maxis “Building SimCity tells the riveting and timely story of how the very unlikely idea of simulating cities became one of the most successful videogames of all times, tracing its origins back to the history of computing.” — Yasmin B. Kafai, Lori and Michael Milken President's Distinguished Professor, The University of Pennsylvania; coauthor of Connected Gaming: What Making Video Games Can Teach Us about Learning and Literacy ••• https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547482/building-simcity/ Building SimCity mitpress.mit.edu ••• Table of Contents Introduction: SimCity’s Mystique Part I Simulation’s Grasp 1 Building Imaginary Cities 2 Simulation as Analogy Part II Paving the Road to SimCity 3 System Dynamics: A Society of Bits 4 Cellular Automata: Synthesizing the Universe 5 A Children’s Construction Set Part III SimCity’s Architects 6 Designing SimCity 7 Maxis at the Crossroads 8 How SimCity Works 9 Playing SimCity Conclusion: The World in a Machine

1 0

Announcement of David Bates' Upcoming Talk in Berlin
by William Morgan 03 Jun '24

03 Jun '24

Dear all, Next week in Berlin, Professor David Bates will be giving a talk at Trust about his new book "An Artificial History of Natural Intelligence: Thinking with Machines from Descartes to the Digital Age" (Chicago 2024). More information (and an RSVP option to help us plan refreshment purchasing) can be found at this link <https://partiful.com/e/JDvLVOMs8gp0tDlUkEEh>. Hope to see you there! -- William Morgan *http://williammorgan.info/ <http://williammorgan.info/>*

1 0

A book on "The French School of Programming"
by Cliff Jones 01 Jun '24

01 Jun '24

Bertrand Meyer has collected a fascinating series of papers: Publisher site https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-34518-0 Amazon US https://amzn.to/455jwkK Amazon France https://amzn.to/3V2tzTi Amazon Germany https://amzn.to/3KliBDo

1 0

C. Gordon Bell obit.
by Ceruzzi, Paul 23 May '24

23 May '24

Among other accomplishments, Gordon was an early supporter of the Computer History Museum, which started at a DEC building, and began with pieces of the Whirlwind computer rescued from scrap (correct me if this is wrong). https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/21/technology/c-gordon-bell-dead.html

4 3

Re: [SIGCIS-Members] C. Gordon Bell obit.
by Len Shustek 23 May '24

23 May '24

At 08:17 AM 5/23/2024, Ceruzzi, Paul via Members wrote: >Among other accomplishments, Gordon was an early supporter of the >Computer History Museum, which started at a DEC building, and began >with pieces of the Whirlwind computer rescued from scrap (correct me >if this is wrong). That is correct. Articles about the history of the history museum -- both its incarnations -- are here: https://computerhistory.org/blog/computer-history-museum-celebrating-35-yea… https://computerhistory.org/blog/len-shustek-a-man-with-a-vision-for-a-muse… https://d1yx3ys82bpsa0.cloudfront.net/atchm/documents/Personal_Reflections_… https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/out-of-a-closet-the-ea…

3 2

Two upcoming events at the Computer History Museum that may be of interest
by David Brock 21 May '24

21 May '24

For your consideration: May 30th, an event on India’s digital public infrastructure with Pramod Varma. https://computerhistory.org/events/indias-digital-revolution/?utm_campaign=… India's Digital Revolution computerhistory.org June 18th, and event on Tom Mullaney’s new book, The Chinese Computer. https://computerhistory.org/events/the-chinese-computer/?utm_campaign=2024-… The Chinese Computer computerhistory.org +++++++++++++++ David C. Brock dcb(a)dcbrock.net 40 Russell Street, Greenfield, MA 01301 Mobile: 413-522-3578 Skype: dcbrock Twitter: @dcbrock Pronouns: he, him, his

1 0

Announcing SIGCIS 2024 Conference Schedule + Logistical Details
by Babintseva, Ekaterina 15 May '24

15 May '24

Dear SIGCIS, On behalf of the SIGCIS organizing committee -- Morgan Ames, Xiaochang Li, Colette Perold, Gili Vidan, and myself -- I am happy to announce that the preliminary schedule for the 15th Annual Meeting of SIGCIS is now live and can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/2mvv8kcu Our keynote for the event is Anita Say Chan (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), the author of Networking Peripheries: Technological Futures and the Myth of Digital Universalism (2014). This year, the conference will take place on the Viña del Mar campus of Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, on July 14, right after the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) meeting. There is an option to attend SIGCIS virtually, and one of our hotel conference rooms will be hybrid-enabled. Below, you will find some key information about registration, transportation, lodging, and SIGCIS events, including our legendary book raffle. Registration: Please register here<https://www.historyoftechnology.org/annual-meeting/2024-joint-icohtec-shot-…>. If you are only attending SIGCIS and not SHOT, use the promo code "SIGCISSUNDAY." You will have the option to add the code when selecting the registration fee. SIGCIS Friday Lunch: SIGCIS will have a Friday luncheon, catered by SHOT, at the conference venue. This is open to the wider SHOT community, so please get the word out for those who may be SIGCIS-curious! Book raffle: Following the precedent set in New Orleans in 2022, the raffle drawing for books will take place on Sunday at the SIGCIS lunch (NOT at the Friday lunch!). We will have raffle tickets available at the SIGCIS Friday lunch and from SIGCIS officers throughout SHOT. We’d like to encourage you to bring books for the SIGCIS raffle, or get them to a colleague who will be attending SIGCIS in person. The raffle is an important fundraiser for SIGCIS, and we hope you contribute books and participate! Lodging: As the conference will take place on the Viña del Mar campus of Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, there will be no official conference hotel. Please refer to SHOT’s lodging recommendations posted here.<https://www.historyoftechnology.org/annual-meeting/2024-joint-icohtec-shot-…> Viña del Mar transportation: SHOT will be providing shuttles from four locations around Viña del Mar to the conference venue in the morning, and back to the four locations around Viña del Mar after conference sessions end in the afternoon. SIGCIS will also have access to these shuttles, with the same pick-up and drop-off locations, on Sunday. We will send more details about the locations when we get them. Note that public transit does not otherwise serve the conference venue directly (it is a 20+ minute walk from the nearest stops). Self-Organizing Santiago Shuttle Share: If you would like to share taxis or shuttles from Santiago to Viña del Mar with other SIGCIS members, please reach out to someone listed on this spreadsheet<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wr_tzgM_QmxD8YDujhfpC_xpZbTEIEie3pa…> who is arriving or leaving around the same time as you, or enter your flight details and contact information if there is nobody arriving or leaving around the same time. Note that it's up to you to check back and self-organize - we're providing a point of coordination but will not be booking the shuttles or putting people in touch with each other. We can’t wait for the event and hope to see many of you at SIGCIS, in-person or virtually. With best wishes, Katya Babintseva Ekaterina (Katya) Babintseva [bahb-int-seva] www.ekaterina-babintseva.com<https://www.ekaterina-babintseva.com/> Assistant Professor in the History of Technology Purdue University Department of History, Beering Hall 6178 West Lafayette, Indiana 47907 ebabints(a)purdue.edu<mailto:ebabints@purdue.edu>

1 0