The Routledge Handbook of Archaeology and the Media in the 21st Century presents diverse international perspectives on what it means to be an archaeologist and to conduct archaeological research in the age of digital and mobile media.
This volume analyses the present‑day use of new and old media by professional and academic archaeology for leisure, academic study and/or public engagement, and attempts to provide a broad survey of the use of media in a wider global archaeological context. It features work on traditional paper media, radio, podcasting, film, television, contemporary art, photography, video games, mobile technology, 3D image capture, digitization and social media. Themes explored include archaeology and traditional media, archaeology in a digital age, archaeology in a post‑truth era and the future of archaeology. Such comprehensive coverage has not been seen before, and the focus on 21st‑century concerns and media consumption practices provides an innovative and original approach.
The Routledge Handbook of Archaeology and the Media in the 21st Century updates the interdisciplinary field of media studies in archaeology and will appeal to students and researchers in multiple fields including contemporary, public, digital, and media archaeology, and heritage studies and management. Television and film producers, writers and presenters of cultural heritage will also benefit from the many entanglements shared here between archaeology and the contemporary media landscape.
Edited by:
Lorna-Jane Richardson (University of East Anglia UK.),
Andrew Reinhard (New York University,
USA.),
Nicole Smith (University of Glasgow,
UK.)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 246mm,
Width: 174mm,
Weight: 870g
ISBN: 9781032105970
ISBN 10: 1032105976
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 20 June 2024
Audience:
General/trade
,
College/higher education
,
Professional and scholarly
,
ELT Advanced
,
Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction; Part I: Still Images, Moving Pictures, and Interactive Digital Spaces – 1. Archaeology and Photography in the Pre-Digital Age: The View from the American Southwest; 2. Imagined Realities: A Comparison of Fictional Representations of Graffiti in Pandemic Cinema and Graffiti Archaeology during the COVID-19 Pandemic; 3. Victorian Popular Culture in Twenty-First-Century Archaeological Media; 4. Archaeology on South African Screens and Prospects for the Future: A Case Study on Shoreline (2009); 5. Chinese (Pseudo)Archaeology on Television: A Daomu Biji Case Study; 6. Between Academia and Popular Culture: The ‘Tomb Robbing’ Media Genre in Mainland China and Its Impact on Popular Perceptions of Archaeology; 7. Film, Archaeology and the Evolution of the i-Doc; 8. Archaeogaming: The State of the Field in 2022; 9. Playing in the Past: Visualising Living and Immersive Past Worlds; 10. Indiana Jones in Videogames – Depicting Archaeology as Colonial Practice; 11. Decomposing Images: Locating Materiality, Creativity and Agency in the Early Years of Archaeological Immersive Media Practice; Part II: Ethics and the Internet – 12. Wikipedia and Archaeology; 13. Heritage, Journalism, and Moral Panic: Media Framing of the Looting of Iraqi and Syrian Antiquities; 14. Comedy = Tragedy + Time: The “Meme-ification” of Archaeological Human Remains; 15. Digital Identities: Memes and Engagements with Human Remains on Instagram; 16. Settlers to Solutreans: Alternative Archaeologies, Media, & Anti-Indigenous Violence; Part III: Public Archaeology – 17. How to Provide Outreach That Is in Reach: An Examination of Trends towads Multivocality and Accessibility in Digital Public Archaeology; 18. Physically Distant but Socially Connected: Archaeology at Home in the Time of COVID-19; 19. Enchanting Images: Co-Creative Practice for Image-Making in Community Archaeology; 20. The Promotion of Sudanese Archaeological Heritage through Documentary Films and Digital Media; 21. Museum and Digitization in the Aftermath of Colonialism in Southern Africa; 22. Turkish Scientific Journalism and Its Approach to Göbekli Tepe; Index.
Lorna-Jane Richardson is a Lecturer in Digital Humanities and Heritage in the School of Art, Media & American Studies, University of East Anglia. Andrew Reinhard is a Research Affiliate at New York University’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World and is also a CRM Project Director for Metcalf Archaeological Consultants. Nicole Smith is a Lecturer in Museum Education at the University of Glasgow, UK.
