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media archaeology

media archaeology noun: a field that attempts to understand new and emerging media through close examination of the past.

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.
    • 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...2022, Andreas Fickers, Annie van den Oever, Doing Experimental Media Archaeology, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN

Forms of media archaeology

pluralmedia archaeologies
alternative formmedia archeology

Questions about media archaeology

What does media archaeology mean?
Media archaeology means a field that attempts to understand new and emerging media through close examination of the past.
What part of speech is media archaeology?
Media archaeology is a noun.
What is the plural of media archaeology?
The plural of media archaeology is media archaeologies.

Words near media archaeology in the dictionary

  1. medi-hotel
  2. medi-hotels
  3. media
  4. media advocacy
  5. media archaeologist
  6. media archaeology
  7. Media Atropatena
  8. Media Atropatene
  9. media bridge
  10. media bridges
  11. media center

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