Critical Perspectives on Museums and Digital Technology
About the Book Series
Critical Perspectives on Museums and Digital Technology contends that digital – now more than ever – is critical to the future of the cultural sector, but that it is also a relationship in need of urgent reframing.
Promoting interdisciplinary writing that seeks to address contemporaneous issues in a time-sensitive way, the series will also be perceptive and attuned to contextual precedents and emergent issues from across the museum technology field. Contributions will be "critical" in that each book will always bring a high level of criticality and intellectuality to the way it negotiates its subject. These publications will also speak to issues that are timely, urgent and, therefore, "critical" to how we understand current practices. As a whole, the series will consider how to redefine the museum in relation to the sociocultural and technological conditions within which it must coexist.
Critical Perspectives on Museums and Digital Technology will include solo, collaborative and ensemble volumes that are accessible and supported by practice-based insights. The series will be essential reading for academics, students and professionals around the globe. Contributions to the series will be particularly useful to those with an interest in museums and heritage, media and communication, art and design, education, business and economics.
Museums and Digital Maturity: Consideration, capability, and change
1st Edition
By Lauren Vargas, Katherine Jones
October 29, 2025
Museums and Digital Maturity helps museums to understand why they should assess their digital maturity and explains how to undertake an assessment, even if an institution has a lack of dedicated funding or digital expertise. Informed and influenced by business development models and practices, the ...
Museums and Digital Confidence: Organisation, Collection, Interface
1st Edition
Edited
By Ross Parry, Vince Dziekan, Karin de Wild
July 07, 2025
Museums and Digital Confidence explores the evolving nature of digital practices in museums. It interrogates the skills, literacies, and mindsets that can support the use of digital technologies within these institutions. It also reflects on why digital adoption has faltered (at times), why digital...
Museums and Design Practices
1st Edition
By Marco Mason, Vince Dziekan
July 01, 2025
Museums and Design Practices explores the increasingly critical role that design is playing in museums by focusing on how human-centred design approaches are being embraced and incorporated into their work practices. This book advances “design-as-practice” as a way to acknowledge the technosocial ...
Museums and the History of Computing: Objects, Narratives and Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Simone Natale, Petrina Foti, Ross Parry
July 26, 2024
Museums and the History of Computing examines the critical role that cultural organizations, such as museums and galleries, play in shaping ‘digital heritage’: the cultural heritage surrounding computer technology. Focusing on digital technologies as objects and practices that museums collect, ...