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What is Media Archaeology?

What is Media Archaeology?
What is Media Archaeology?
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.

Reviews
'Jussi Parikka offers a lucid, concise, and highly readable account of a new and exciting field - media archaeology. He demonstrates that contemporary media forms are rooted to the past by multiple threads - untangling them helps us understand the media frenzy that currently surrounds us.'
Erkki Huhtamo, University of California Los Angeles

'A fabulous map of media archaeology that, as its subject compels, produces its territory anew.'
Matthew Fuller, Goldsmiths

'The most comprehensive coverage to date of this fascinating area of study. Parikka's book offers an excellent overview of connections between the material and social aspects of media technology. He provides a thorough review of the diverse and sometimes contrasting theoretical foundations and provides a host of concrete examples of media-archaeological practice that serve to bridge the gap between heady theoretical trajectories and the concerns of practicing artists, users and other readers who take their technology seriously.'
Paul DeMarinis, Stanford University
media archaeology, media theory, cultural theory, media art history
9780745650258
Polity Press
Parikka, Jussi
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Parikka, Jussi
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Parikka, Jussi (2012) What is Media Archaeology? , Cambridge, GB. Polity Press, 200pp.

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Abstract

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.

Reviews
'Jussi Parikka offers a lucid, concise, and highly readable account of a new and exciting field - media archaeology. He demonstrates that contemporary media forms are rooted to the past by multiple threads - untangling them helps us understand the media frenzy that currently surrounds us.'
Erkki Huhtamo, University of California Los Angeles

'A fabulous map of media archaeology that, as its subject compels, produces its territory anew.'
Matthew Fuller, Goldsmiths

'The most comprehensive coverage to date of this fascinating area of study. Parikka's book offers an excellent overview of connections between the material and social aspects of media technology. He provides a thorough review of the diverse and sometimes contrasting theoretical foundations and provides a host of concrete examples of media-archaeological practice that serve to bridge the gap between heady theoretical trajectories and the concerns of practicing artists, users and other readers who take their technology seriously.'
Paul DeMarinis, Stanford University

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Published date: May 2012
Keywords: media archaeology, media theory, cultural theory, media art history
Organisations: Winchester School of Art

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Local EPrints ID: 210938
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/210938
ISBN: 9780745650258
PURE UUID: a95a181a-f420-4173-ba39-6785f8f81dfc
ORCID for Jussi Parikka: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-2248-6377

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Date deposited: 17 Feb 2012 16:16
Last modified: 11 Dec 2021 04:33

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