Computing Legacies

Digital Cultures of Simulation

Peter Krapp

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MIT Press
07 January 2025

Computing: general

A media history of simulation that contextualizes our digital heritage and the history of computing.

A media history of simulation that contextualizes our digital heritage and the history of computing.

In Computing Legacies, Peter Krapp explores a media history of simulation to excavate three salient aspects of digital culture. Firstly, he profiles simulation as cultural technique, enabling symbolic work and foregrounding hypothetical literacy. Secondly, he positions simulation as crucial for the preservation of cultural memory, where modeling, emulation, and serious play are constitutive in how we relate to our mediated history. And lastly, despite suggestions that we may already live in a simulation, he interrogates how simulation can serve as critique of the computer age.

In tracing our digital heritage, Computing Legacies elucidates inflection points where quantitative data becomes tractable for qualitative evaluations- modeling epidemics for scientific study or entertainment, emulating older devices, turning numerical calculations into music, conducting espionage in virtual worlds, and gamifying higher education. Simulation, this book demonstrates, is pivotal not only to high-tech research and to archives, museums, and the preservation of digital culture but also to our understanding of what it is to live and work under the technical conditions of computing.

By: Peter Krapp
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 178mm, Width: 114mm,
Weight: 369g
ISBN: 9780262549837
ISBN 10: 0262549832
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 07 January 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction 1 Simulation as Cultural Technique 2 Is the Internet a Museum of Computing? 3 Fake Bit: Let It Bleep, Keep It Sample 4 Troll Security: Espionage in Virtual Worlds 5 Virtual U: The Simulation of Higher Education Conclusion Notes Index

Peter Krapp is Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Irvine, where he is also affiliated with the departments of English, Music, and Informatics.

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Computing Legacies

Digital Cultures of Simulation

Peter Krapp

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