1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of Archaeology and the Media in the 21st Century
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 twenty-first 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.
List of figures
List of contributors
Introduction
Part 1: Still Images, Moving Pictures, and Interactive Digital Spaces
1. Archaeology and Photography in the Pre-Digital Age: The View from the American Southwest (Scott Van Keuren)
2. Imagined Realities: A Comparison of Fictional Representations of Graffiti in Pandemic Cinema and Graffiti Archaeology During the COVID-19 Pandemic (Emma Bryning)
3. Victorian Popular Culture in Twenty-First-Century Archaeological Media (Kevin McGeough)
4. Archaeology on South African Screens and Prospects for the Future: A Case Study on Shoreline (2009) (Vuyiswa Lupuwana)
5. Chinese (Pseudo) Archaeology on Television: A Daomu Biji Case Study (E. Charlotte Stevens)
6. Between Academia and Popular Culture: The ‘Tomb Robbing’ Media Genre in Mainland China and its Impact on Popular Perceptions of Archaeology (Rebecca O’Sullivan)
7. Film, Archaeology and the Evolution of the i-Doc (Tanya Venture)
8. Archaeogaming: The State of the Field in 2022 (Andrew Reinhard)
9. Playing in the Past: Visualising Living and Immersive Past Worlds (Caroline Arbuckle MacLeod, Gemma Renshaw, and Kathleen Sheppard)
10. Indiana Jones in Videogames—Depicting Archaeology as Colonial Practice (Sebastian Hageneuer)
11. Decomposing Images: locating materiality, creativity and agency in the early years of archaeological immersive media practice (Gareth Beale)
Part 2: Ethics and the Internet
12. Wikipedia and Archaeology (Moore and Nevel)
13. Heritage, Journalism, and Moral Panic: Media Framing of the Looting of Iraqi and Syrian Antiquities (Luise Loges)
14. Comedy = Tragedy + Time: The “Meme-ification” of Archaeological Human Remains (Katherine Crouch)
15. Digital Identities: Memes and Engagements with Human Remains on Instagram (Cassandra McKenney, Jaime Simons, Damien Huffer, and Shawn Graham)
16. Settlers to Solutreans: Alternative Archaeologies, Media, & Anti-Indigenous Violence (Paul Edward Montgomery Ramírez)
Part 3: Public Archaeology
17. How to Provide Outreach that is In Reach: An Examination of Trends towads Multivocality and Accessibility in Digital Public Archaeology (Fitzpatrick and Boyle)
18. Physically distant but socially connected: Archaeology at Home in the time of COVID-19 (Brendan Wilkins and Lisa Westcott Wilkins)
19. Enchanting Images: Co-Creative Practice for Image Making in Community Archaeology (Nicole Smith)
20. The Sudanese Experience of Promoting Archaeological Heritage (Mohammed Nasreldein)
21. Museum and Digitization in the Aftermath of Colonialism in Southern Africa (Rushohora)
22. Turkish Scientific Journalism and its Approach to Göbekli Tepe (Semiray Yücebas and N. Pinar Özgüner Gülhan)
Index
Biography
Lorna-Jane Richardson is Lecturer in Digital Humanities and Heritage in the School of Art, Media & American Studies.
Andrew Reinhard is a Research Affiliate at New York University's Institute for the Study of the Ancient world and is also the Director of Publications for the American Numismatic Society.
Nicole Smith is a Lecturer in Museum Education at the University of Glasgow, UK.
