[Air-l] failed media

[Michael T Zimmer]

Bruce Sterling's Dead Media Project is a good place to start: http://www.deadmedia.org/


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Michael T. Zimmer
Doctoral Student, Media Ecology
Department of Culture and Communication
New York University


----- Original Message -----
From: Jonathan Sterne <jsterne+ at pitt.edu>
Date: Thursday, March 11, 2004 3:43 pm
Subject: [Air-l] failed media

> At 12:01 PM -0500 3/11/04, air-l-request at aoir.org wrote:
> >Message: 5
> >From: "Mattia Miani" <katanankes at yahoo.com>
> >To: <air-l at aoir.org>
> >Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 21:16:56 +0100
> >Subject: [Air-l] Re: Air-l digest, Vol 1 #1001 - 8 msgs
> >Reply-To: air-l at aoir.org
> >
> >Hi all.
> >
> >Time ago, i believe, someone issued on the list a call for 
> chapters for a
> >book aimed at exploring how forms of new media have failed in the 
> past. An
> >intriguing question. Does anybody know id they came out with the 
> book?>
> >Mattia Miani
> >University of Bologna
> 
> Hi Maria,
> 
> I have no idea who posted that call.  There is a dead media 
> database 
> somewhere online, and failure is an ongoing theme in the history 
> of 
> communication technology.  For a good theoretical take, check out 
> John Durham Peters _Speaking Into the Air_ and Briankle Chang 
> _Deconstructing Communication_ (especially the last chapter). 
> Otherwise, I'd recommend any of the classic media histories 
> available 
> -- most of them deal at some length with ulternatives and 
> unrealized 
> plans.
> 
> Charles Acland at Concordia is editing a book called _Residual 
> Media_ 
> (in which I have a chapter on computer obsolescence) and I am 
> working 
> on a book about abject moments in the 20th century history of 
> communication technology (pretty US-centric but not exclusively) --
> 
> failure, obsolescence, decline, absurdity.  There's also an 
> upcoming 
> conference at a school in Florida (forget which one) on media 
> disasters.
> 
> Best,
> --J
> -- 
> Jonathan Sterne, Assistant Professor
> Department of Communication, University of Pittsburgh
> http://www.pitt.edu/~jsterne
> 
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