This open access book explores the multiple forms of curatorial agencies that develop when
museum collection digitisations narratives and new research findings circulate online.
Focusing on Viking Age objects it tracks the effects of antagonistic debates on discussion
forums and the consequences of search engines personalisation and machine learning on
American-based online platforms. Furthermore it considers eco-systemic processes comprising
computation rare-earth minerals electrical currents and data centres and cables as novel
forms of curatorial actions. Thus it explores curatorial agency as social constructivist
semiotic algorithmic and material. This book is of interest to scholars and students in the
fields of museum studies cultural heritage and media studies. It also appeals to museum
practitioners concerned with curatorial innovation at the intersection of humanist
interpretations and new materialist and more-than-human frameworks.
