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Historical Studies in Computing, Information, and SocietyExpanding the Usable Past

Historical Studies in Computing, Information, and Society: Expanding the Usable Past [Across diverse industries and professions, speculations about the future of computers and information technologies have been joined by frequent invocations of the past. These efforts to look backwards and forwards find many uses for history. Yet the turn to a usable past has been unnecessarily limited in its device-centered focus, particularly in light of the growing interest in a much broader set of objects of analysis among professional historians. This essay uses the history of the junior republic movement to illustrate the broader opportunities for thinking with history that recent developments in computing and information history represent.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Historical Studies in Computing, Information, and SocietyExpanding the Usable Past

Part of the History of Computing Book Series
Editors: Aspray, William
Light, Jennifer S.
Historical Studies in Computing, Information, and Society — Jan 2, 2020
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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
ISBN
978-3-030-18954-9
Pages
17 –28
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-18955-6_2
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Abstract

[Across diverse industries and professions, speculations about the future of computers and information technologies have been joined by frequent invocations of the past. These efforts to look backwards and forwards find many uses for history. Yet the turn to a usable past has been unnecessarily limited in its device-centered focus, particularly in light of the growing interest in a much broader set of objects of analysis among professional historians. This essay uses the history of the junior republic movement to illustrate the broader opportunities for thinking with history that recent developments in computing and information history represent.]

Published: Jan 2, 2020

Keywords: Uses of history; Learning science and technology; Gamification; Virtual words; Simulation

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