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Re-negotiating Exhibitionary Practices and the "Digital" Politics of Display: The Case of the MTL Urban Museum App

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Museum and Society, Volume: 16, Issue: 2, Pages: 260 - 278

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In this paper, I employ a sociotechnical approach (drawn from science and technology studies) to reconstruct how the McCord Museum’s MTL Urban Museum App was re-made. I take into account both the social and the technical, and consider the human and the nonhuman, which allows me to chart the roles of...

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ISSN: 1479-8360
Published: University of Leicester 2018
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