media archaeology
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.56 in modern English
28
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
7
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A field that attempts to understand new and emerging media through close examination of the past.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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 lay bare the epistemological structure underpinning studies in the humanities."
Usage
Inflected Forms
media archaeologies (plural)
media archeology (alternative)