Title & Author:

Media archaeology : approaches, applications, and implications / edited by Erkki Huhtamo and Jussi Parikka.

Publication:

Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©2011.

Description:

x, 356 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: toward an archaeology of media archaeology / Erkki Huhtamo and Jussi Parikka -- Engines of/in the imaginary. Dismantling the fairy engine: media archaeology as topos study / Erkki Huhtamo -- On the archaeology of imaginary media / Eric Kluitenberg -- On the origins of the origins of the influencing machine / Jeffrey Sconce -- Freud and the technical media : the enduring magic of the wunderblock / Thomas Elsaesser -- (Inter)facing media. The "baby talkie," domestic media, and the Japanese modern / Machiko Kusahara -- The observer's dilemma : to play or not to play / Wanda Strauven -- The game player's duty : the user as the gestalt of the ports / Claus Pias -- The enduring ephemeral, or the future is a memory / Wendy Hui Kyong Chun -- Between analog and digital. Erased dots & rotten dashes-how to wire a head for a preservation / Paul deMarinis -- Media archaeography-method & machine versus history & narrative of media / Wolfgang Ernst -- Mapping noise : techniques and tactics of irregularities, interception and disturbance / Jussi Parikka -- Objects of our affection : how object-orientation made computers a medium / Casey Alt -- Digital media archaeology : interpreting computational processes / Noah Wardrip-Fruin -- Afterword : media archaeology and re-presencing the past / Vivian Sobchack.

Summary:

This volume 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.

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ISBN:

9780520262737 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0520262735 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780520262744 (pbk.)
0520262743 (pbk.)
9780520948518 (electronic bk.)
0520948513

Subject:

Mass media.
Information technology.
Electronic data processing.
Médias.
Technologie de l'information.
mass media.
information technology.
05.02 philosophy and theory of communication studies.
05.30 mass communication and mass media: general.
Media Studies.
Medientheorie
Medienphilosophie
Intermedialität
Massenmedien
Neue Medien
Informationstechnik
Medienkultur
Media usage.
Technology.
Social aspects.
Methodology.
Medien.
Digitale Medien.
Massmedia.
Informationsteknik.
Informationsteknologi.

Added entries:

Huhtamo, Erkki.
Parikka, Jussi, 1976-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 322121
Call No.: 322121
Copy: 1
Status: Available