1st Edition

Media History and the Archive

Edited By Craig Robertson Copyright 2011
136 Pages
by Routledge

136 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

136 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

By the time readers encounter academic history in the form of books and articles, all that tends to be left of an author’s direct experience with archives is pages of endnotes. Whether intentionally or not, archives have until recently been largely thought of as discrete collections of documents, perhaps not neutral but rarely considered to be historical actors. This book brings together top... Read more

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

Biography

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).