media archaeology

English

Alternative forms
  • media archeology

Noun

media archaeology (countable and uncountable, plural media archaeologies)

  1. A field that attempts to understand new and emerging media through close examination of the past.
    • 2022, Andreas Fickers, Annie van den Oever, Doing Experimental Media Archaeology, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN:
      The history of media archaeology has been a history of discourse-oriented analysis in the sense of Foucault. However, it was Friedrich Kittler, the intellectual father of media archaeology, who inspired a focus on the materiality of the medium from the early 1980s onwards, one of his aims being to lay bare the epistemological structure underpinning studies in the humanities.

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