Media History and the Archive

ISBN-13: 9780415593274 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 136 str.

Craig Robertson;?Abar;?Abar

Opis

Brings together some of the top media scholars to rethink the role of the archive and historical record from the perspective of writing media history.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Thinking about Archives, Writing about History  Craig Robertson  2. Writing From the Archive: Creating Your Own  Susan J. Douglas  3. Genres of Journalism History  John Nerone  4. Welcome to the Bubble Chamber: Online in the Humanities Today  Lisa Gitelman  5. Television and History: Questioning the Archive  Paddy Scannell  6. Housing Television: Architectures of the Archive  Lynn Spigel  7. Rearranging the Files: On Interpretation in Media History  Jonathan Sterne  8. What is an Archive?: An Apparatus Model for Communications and Media History  Jeremy Packer  9. Afterword  John Durham Peters

O autorze

Craig Robertson is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Northeastern University. He is the author of The Passport in America (Oxford University Press) and the co-editor of Thinking With James Carey: Essays on Communication, History, Transportation (Peter Lang).