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标题：Review: Jussi Parikka’s What is media archaeology?
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作者：Benjamin Nicoll
期刊名称：Digital Culture & Education
印刷版ISSN：1836-8301
电子版ISSN：1836-8301
出版年度：2013
卷号：5
期号：2
页码：127-131
出版社：Digital Culture & Education (DCE)
摘要：As the title of Jussi Parikka's book suggests, the primary concern of What is Media Archaeology. (2012) is with explaining the theoretical and practical applications of media archaeology as it has been employed by media researchers, film historians, cultural critics and artists who operate under the banner of this enigmatic discipline. Media archaeol ogy, an emerging sub - field of media research, tends to be understood by scholars as a way to prise media history from the prevailing capitalist and progressivist logic of technological progress. Recent academic work on the subject has also associated media archaeology with an examination of the material technological aspects of different media (Ernst 2013). While these are often recognised as common issues in the scholarly literature, theorists of media archaeology have not reached a consensus on how to def ine the discipline. This can be viewed as a consequence of struggles between the various positions or methodologies available for undertaking a media archaeological approach (see: Huhtamo & Parikka 2011). What an archaeological approach to media is, what i t entails, is a question that has triggered academic debates about media archaeology and how it should be used a s a research method (see: Ernst 2013 ; Huhtamo 2013 ).