Media archaeology : approaches, applications, and implications

Bibliographic Information

Media archaeology : approaches, applications, and implications

edited by Erkki Huhtamo and Jussi Parikka

University of California Press, c2011

  • : cloth
  • : pbk

Available at  / 14 libraries

Search this Book/Journal

Note

Bibliography: p. 335-341

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This book introduces an archaeological approach to the study of media - one that sifts through the evidence to learn how media were written about, used, designed, preserved, and sometimes discarded. Edited by Erkki Huhtamo and Jussi Parikka, with contributions from internationally prominent scholars from Europe, North America, and Japan, the essays help us understand how the media that predate today's interactive, digital forms were in their time contested, adopted and embedded in the everyday. Providing a broad overview of the many historical and theoretical facets of Media Archaeology as an emerging field, the book encourages discussion by presenting a full range of different voices. By revisiting 'old' or even 'dead' media, it provides a richer horizon for understanding 'new' media in their complex and often contradictory roles in contemporary society and culture.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: An Archaeology of Media Archaeology Erkki Huhtamo and Jussi Parikka Part I: Engines of/in the Imaginary 2. Dismantling the Fairy Engine: Media Archaeology as Topos Study Erkki Huhtamo 3. On the Archaeology of Imaginary Media Eric Kluitenberg 4. On the Origins of the Origins of the Influencing Machine Jeffrey Sconce 5. Freud and the Technical Media: The Enduring Magic of the Wunderblock Thomas Elsaesser Part II: (Inter)facing Media 6. The "Baby Talkie," Domestic Media, and the Japanese Modern Machiko Kusahara 7. The Observer's Dilemma: To Touch or Not to Touch Wanda Strauven 8. The Game Player's Duty: The User as the Gestalt of the Ports Claus Pias 9. The Enduring Ephemeral, or The Future Is a Memory Wendy Hui Kyong Chun Part III: Between Analogue and Digital 10. Erased Dots and Rotten Dashes, or How to Wire Your Head for a Preservation Paul DeMarinis 11. Media Archaeography: Method and Machine versus History and Narrative of Media Wolfgang Ernst 12. Mapping Noise: Techniques and Tactics of Irregularities, Interception, and Disturbance Jussi Parikka 13. Objects of Our Affection: How Object Orientation Made Computers a Medium Casey Alt 14. Digital Media Archaeology: Interpreting Computational Processes Noah Wardrip-Fruin 15. Afterword: Media Archaeology and Re-presencing the Past Vivian Sobchack Contributors Selected Bibliography Index

by "Nielsen BookData"

Details

  • NCID
    BB06523079
  • ISBN
    • 9780520262737
    • 9780520262744
  • LCCN
    2010037380
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Berkeley, Calif.
  • Pages/Volumes
    x, 356 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
  • Classification
  • Subject Headings
Page Top