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By Erkki Huhtamo, Jussi Parikka

This ebook introduces an archaeological method of the examine of media - person who sifts during the facts to profit how media have been written approximately, used, designed, preserved, and occasionally discarded. Edited by way of Erkki Huhtamo and Jussi Parikka, with contributions from the world over favourite students from Europe, North the USA, and Japan, the essays support us know how the media that predate today’s interactive, electronic kinds have been of their time contested, followed and embedded within the daily. supplying a huge assessment of the numerous old and theoretical elements of Media Archaeology as an rising box, the booklet encourages dialogue via proposing an entire variety of other voices. by way of revisiting ‘old’ or perhaps ‘dead’ media, it presents a richer horizon for realizing ‘new’ media of their complicated and sometimes contradictory roles in modern society and culture.

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