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.

Related terms

• media archaeologist

Further reading

• media archaeology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia