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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Huhtamo, Erkki

Parikka, Jussi, 1976-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media.

Information technology.

Physical Description:

x, 356 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, [2011]

Summary:

This book introduces an archaeological approach to the study of media-one that sifts through the evidence to learn how media have been 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780520262737

0520262735

9780520262744

0520262743

OCLC:

664555771