Scholars have explored the influence of the field of cybernetics on scientific thought and disciplines. However, from the inception of the field, ‘‘cyberneticians’’ had explicitly envisioned applications reaching beyond the purview of scientific disciplines; cybernetics was remarkable for its portability and potential application in a wide variety…[Read more]

This article considers two activist projects involving attempts to export communication technologies. Groups of technologists based in the United States and Europe designed a radio station and an “oral wiki” for use in Tanzania and Rwanda, respectively. Both projects stalled before they could be fully implemented. But they did not languish bec…[Read more]

Dunbar-Hester vividly cuts to the heart of gender issues embedded within computing cultures by exploring questions of “diversity” tied to FLOSS
and hackerspace projects. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork within these sites, she reveals a wide array of motivations behind diversity programs. In doing so, she assesses the potential of such pro…[Read more]

In this paper, I consider the activities of a group of individuals who tinker with and build radio hardware in an informal setting called ‘Geek Group’. They conceive of Geek Group as a radical pedagogical activity, which constitutes an aspect of activism surrounding citizen access to low-power FM radio. They are also concerned with combating the…[Read more]

An article concerning the life and contributions of Catherine Horner.

In 1963, details of the membership of congregations in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the United Kingdom and Ireland took place and was published in The Construction Era. Individual congregations and their membership, which is assumed to be total membership, was published alongside a chart indicating how far it had progressed…[Read more]

This spreadsheet contains the details of persons recorded as members in the Swindon congregation of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS). In total, 47 people are identified. Information including parents details, baptismal dates, and so is included. The record was kept from 1908 until the late 1910s, and included a list of…[Read more]

Details of the congregations in the British Isles in December 1942 with the Presidents name and address. The addresses have been geo-referenced ready for importation into a GIS. The data contains a snapshot of the geographic distribution of LDS meeting places during the Second World War.

In recent years, important research on crowdsourcing in the cultural heritage sector has been published, dealing with topics such as the quantity of contributions made by volunteers, the motivations of those who participate in such projects, the design and establishment of crowdsourcing initiatives, and their public engagement value. This article…[Read more]

Emergent mobile technologies offer museum professionals new ways of engaging visitors with their collections. Museums are powerful learning environments and mobile technology can enable visitors to experience the narratives in museum objects and galleries and integrate them with their own personal reflections and interpretations. UCL‟s QRator p…[Read more]