Understanding Media Archaeology

Abstract

admitted that, "as an approach to the social history of technical media it took me a long time to understand what the term media archaeology means" (quoted in Armitage, 2006, p. 32).Kittler, who is often listed among the fathers of media archaeology, had probably not been alone in his troubles to comprehend the precise sense and scope of media archaeology.In fact, given the varied approaches taken by scholars who worked under this label and the different ways it has been defined, providing a clear and definite account of media archaeology is a rather difficult task. Media Archaeology: Approaches, Applications, and Implications, a collection of essays published by University of California Press, therefore has the merit to provide some order in a field whose contributions to contemporary media studies are strongly influential, but often vague and ambiguous.Featuring contributions from several of the main intellectual figures on the international scene-including Erik Kluitenberg, Thomas Elsaesser, and Wolfgang Ernst-this is perhaps the most comprehensive book on this field ever published in English.Moreover, editors

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