What is Media Archaeology?

Jussi Parikka (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

200 Seiten

2012
Polity Press (Verlag)
978-0-7456-5026-5 (ISBN)

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* First single authored introduction to an emergent area of media studies. * Media Archaeology is a hot topic which is principally concerned with providing more of a historical view of new media and technology. * This book lays out the key ideas, thinkers and examples to give readers an entry point to this complex area.

This cutting-edge text offers an introduction to the emerging field of media archaeology and analyses the innovative theoretical and artistic methodology used to excavate current media through its past. Written with a steampunk attitude, What is Media Archaeology? examines the theoretical challenges of studying digital culture and memory and opens up the sedimented layers of contemporary media culture. The author contextualizes media archaeology in relation to other key media studies debates including software studies, German media theory, imaginary media research, new materialism and digital humanities.

What is Media Archaeology? advances an innovative theoretical position while also presenting an engaging and accessible overview for students of media, film and cultural studies. It will be essential reading for anyone interested in the interdisciplinary ties between art, technology and media.

Jussi Parikka is Professor in Technological Culture & Aesthetics at the Winchester School of Art (University of Southampton).

List of Images page vi

Acknowledgements vii

1 Introduction: Cartographies of the Old and the New 1

2 Media Archaeology of the Senses: Audiovisual, Affective, Algorithmic 19

3 Imaginary Media: Mapping Weird Objects 41

4 Media Theory and New Materialism 63

5 Mapping Noise and Accidents 90

6 Archive Dynamics: Software Culture and Digital Heritage 113

7 Practising Media Archaeology: Creative Methodologies for Remediation 136

Conclusions: Media Archaeology in Digital Culture 159

Notes 168

Bibliography 181

Index 197

Erscheint lt. Verlag	4.5.2012
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 226 mm
Gewicht	340 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-7456-5026-0 / 0745650260
ISBN-13	978-0-7456-5026-5 / 9780745650265
Zustand	Neuware