VCC400H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Media Studies, Old Media, New Media
2 Aug 2016
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Description of device (no more than half a page) Why is it important to the methods and aims of media archaeology?) (no more than half a page) How does your device determine the situation of its user? (the medium is the message) Histories of the present (how does the user analysis of your device enrich our understanding of contemporary media reference to, and engagement with, at least three of the required readings on the syllabus (by three different authors) At least one of these three should be a reading assigned in weeks 5-10. Ernst dis/ continunites: conditions of knowledge determined by media technologies in a given historical time/place (foucault"s archaeology of knowledge) media technologies= external memory . Media determine our relationship to the past: cultural technology of archives (eg. libraries, museums) Does the archive become metaphorical in multi media space? (is the internet different from a library or museum?)
