TY - JOUR
T1 - Dead Media
T2 - Obsolescence and redundancy in media history
AU - Brabazon, Tara Michelle
PY - 2013/7
Y1 - 2013/7
N2 - Adjectives attend the new: fresh, clean, exciting, dynamic, innovative and productive. Oppositional binaries cling to the old: tired, worn, redundant, sick, slow and useless. While anti-discrimination policies can address these connotations when applied to people, the consequences of such ideologies on 'old media' are under-researched. While media and cultural studies departments teach 'New Media' courses, 'Old Media' courses remain invisible and unpopular. This paper extends these adjectives and narratives by following a challenge Bruce Sterling posed to researchers: to understand 'Dead Media.' I explore the origins of this term and how and why an interest in Dead Media has - in itself - died.
AB - Adjectives attend the new: fresh, clean, exciting, dynamic, innovative and productive. Oppositional binaries cling to the old: tired, worn, redundant, sick, slow and useless. While anti-discrimination policies can address these connotations when applied to people, the consequences of such ideologies on 'old media' are under-researched. While media and cultural studies departments teach 'New Media' courses, 'Old Media' courses remain invisible and unpopular. This paper extends these adjectives and narratives by following a challenge Bruce Sterling posed to researchers: to understand 'Dead Media.' I explore the origins of this term and how and why an interest in Dead Media has - in itself - died.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84880666536&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.5210/fm.v18i7.4466
DO - 10.5210/fm.v18i7.4466
M3 - Article
VL - 18
JO - First Monday
JF - First Monday
SN - 1396-0466
IS - 7
M1 - 4466
ER -