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

Title
Media archaeology : approaches, applications, and implications / edited by Erkki Huhtamo and Jussi Parikka.
Publication
Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2011.

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Additional Authors
  • Huhtamo, Erkki
  • Parikka, Jussi, 1976-
Description
x, 356 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
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.
Subject
  • Mass media
  • Information technology
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
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.
ISBN
  • 9780520262737 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0520262735 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780520262744 (pbk.)
  • 0520262743 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^2010037380
OCLC
  • 664555771
  • SCSB-11513588
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library