We often talk about ‘black box’ technologies in science and technology studies. The idea behind them is that so often we don’t really know what goes on inside a box, and the effects of such a box might as well be magic. Lots of clever people spend a lot of time trying to open these …
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Mobile Africa Revisited
Last year I headed over to the African Studies Centre at the University of Leiden, in the Netherlands, for the final conference of the Mobile Africa Revisited project. I talked about my experiences of developing a display about mobile phones in Cameroon that will appear in a new gallery in the Science Museum this autumn. …
Putting a piece of Cameroon in the Science Museum
Here’s a blog post I wrote for the Science Museum as part of a series about the forthcoming gallery Information Age. This week I’ve headed up to Manchester to talk about a tiny part of Information Age at the biggest ever history of science conference. Together with some other people from the Information Age team I’m running a …
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