Doing Experimental Media Archaeology: Theory

Andreas Fickers; Annie van den Oever

book: Doing Experimental Media Archaeology

Open Access Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2022

Doing Experimental Media Archaeology

Theory

Andreas Fickers and Annie van den Oever

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110799774

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About this book

This book offers a plea to take the materiality of media technologies and the sensorial and tacit dimensions of media use into account in the writing of the histories of media and technology. In short, it is a bold attempt to question media history from the perspective of an experimental media archaeology approach. It offers a systematic reflection on the value and function of hands-on experimentation in research and teaching.

Doing Experimental Media Archaeology: Theory is the twin volume to Doing Experimental Media Archaeology: Practice, authored by Tim van der Heijden and Aleksander Kolkowski.

Author / Editor information

Andreas Fickers, Director of the C2DH Luxembourg; Annie van den Oever, Faculty of Arts, Arts Culture and Media, University Groningen.

Reviews

"For anyone – curator, researcher, visitor - who ever wondered how now mute museum objects mattered in their past, here is a compelling means to find out." – Tim Boon, Head of Research & Public History, Science Museum Group UK

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“A really fantastic, stimulating, thought-provoking book. Convincing, with a broad scope, clearly supported by personal experience (and experiments), collective as well as personal. The very emphasis on the relation between teaching and research is as refreshing as it is crucial for the argument.” – Benoît Turquety, Associate Professor for Film Studies at Lausanne University

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
Introduction Open Access Download PDF	1
Chapter 1 Experimental Media Archaeology: A Plea for New Directions Open Access Download PDF	18
Chapter 2 Doing Experimental Media Archaeology: Epistemological and Methodological Reflections Open Access Download PDF	30
Chapter 3 De-Habituating Media History, Re-Sensitising Media Historians Open Access Download PDF	51
Chapter 4 Methods, Procedures, Protocols, or: How to Make the Implicit Explicit Open Access Download PDF	74
Chapter 5 The Value of Experimental Media Archaeology for Education and Research Open Access Download PDF	96
Conclusions Open Access Download PDF	117
Bibliography Open Access Download PDF	123
Index of Names Open Access Download PDF	143
Index of Subjects Open Access Download PDF	147

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Audience: Media historians, media archaeologists, historians, museologists, material culture studies, heritage studies
Pages
- Front matter: 12
- Main content: 155
Illustrations
- Coloured Illustrations: 21
- Tables: 1
Keywords: media history; experimental history; hands-on history; media archaeology

eBook

Published: December 31, 2022
ISBN: 9783110799774

Hardcover

Published: December 31, 2022
ISBN: 9783110795806