This collection of essays highlights innovative work in the developing field of media archaeology. It explores the relationship between theory and practice and the relationship between media archaeology and other disciplines. There are three sections to the collection proposing new possible fields of research for media studies: Media Archaeological Theory; Experimental Media Archaeology; Media Archaeology at the Interface. The book includes essays from acknowledged experts in this expanding field, such as Thomas Elsaesser, Wanda Strauven and Jussi Parikka.

Ben Roberts is Lecturer in Digital Humanities at Sussex Humanities Lab, University of Sussex.Mark Goodall is Senior Lecturer in the School of Media Design and Technology at the University of Bradford. His most recent publication is Gathering of the Tribe: Music and Heavy Conscious Creation (Headpress, 2012).

ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionBen Roberts and Mark GoodallPART 1: EXPERIMENTAL MEDIA ARCHAEOLOGY1 Media Archaeology as Laboratory for History Writing and Theory Making Wanda Strauven2 Doing Experimental Media Archaeology: Epistemological and Methodological Reflections on Experiments with Historical Objects of Media Technologies Andreas Fickers and Annie van den Oever3 The Ghosts of Media Archaeology Mark Goodall4 (game)(code): re-playing program listings from 1980s British computer magazines Alison GazzardPART 2: MEDIA ARCHAEOLOGICAL THEORY5 Cinema, Motion, Energy, and Entropy Thomas Elsaesser6 Collector, Hoarder, Media Archaeologist: Walter Benjamin with Vivian Maier Peter Buse7 Media Archaeology and Critical Theory of Technology Ben RobertsPART 3: MEDIA ARCHAEOLOGY AT THE INTERFACE8 The Cube: A Cinema ArchaeologyAngela Piccini9 Inventing Pasts and Futures: Speculative Design and Media Archaeology Jussi ParikkaNotes on ContributorsIndex?