Understanding Media Archaeology

admitted that, "as an approach to the social history of technical media it took me a long time to understand what the term media archaeology means" (quoted in Armitage, 2006, p. 32). Kittler, who is often listed among the fathers of media archaeology, had probably not been alone in his troubles to comprehend the precise sense and scope of media archaeology. In fact, given the varied approaches taken by scholars who worked under this label and the different ways it has been defined, providing a clear and definite account of media archaeology is a rather difficult task.