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What is Media Archaeology

Chapter 10
Handbook of Research on Digital Media and Creative Technologies
A recent approach elaborated within media studies that investigates the several virtualizations of actions, organs, and things as well as their implementation through technological means throughout historical periods. It assumes that there are actions that have already been virtualized and that those virtualizations have been translated into technical objects and then, more recently, to computing forms. It asks, among other questions: where do our tools come from? How are they related to past new media? What was at stake at the origin of the invention? How the invention altered other technologies? How media virtualize us and virtualize things?
Published in Chapter:
Designing Pervasive Virtual Worlds
Everardo Reyes-Garcia (University of Paris 13, France)
Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 24
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8205-4.ch010
Abstract
Virtual worlds can be approached in a broader sense of that which refers to common conceptions of virtual reality and immersive environments. This chapter explores the design of virtual worlds in a time when much contemporary media is accessed through and simulated by software. Today, the main extensions of man are cognitive skills and experiences. Software is a way of seeing the world; it plays a central role in media design and distribution. Software and perception of reality are intertwined and pervasive: media not only exist in form of software but the shape and properties of media are also designed with software. In order to understand the implications of computational media, it is necessary to re-articulate problems in a creative and virtual manner. At the end of the chapter, the author speculates on design approaches and presents some examples developed by him.
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Digitally Empowering Women Through Community Radio and Mobile Storytelling in India
It refers to histories and outdated forms of media tools, equipment, techniques, production processes which are preserved on digital platforms generating a repository of new age digital media tools.
Published in Chapter: Digitally Empowering Women Through Community Radio and Mobile Storytelling in India; From: Digital Capitalism in the New Media Era
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