[ecrea] IJoC New Special Section on "Media Genealogy" Published

International Journal of Communication
Publishes a Special Section on “Media Genealogy”
Media and communications technologies have increasingly been recognized as
central sites and components of contemporary political struggles.
Understanding this centrality requires engaging with history to
contextualize their emergence and ground the problematics that drove their
development and use.  The most recent trend in media history — often
termed “media archaeology” is too often cut off from contemporary
political relevance in a quest to offer rigorous and materialist technical
analyses.  We ask, “How can media archaeology be politicized?”

Just as Michel Foucault adapted his method of historical investigation from
archaeology to genealogy to directly engage the political struggles of the
1970s — specifically the prisoners’ rights and LGBT movements — we
suggest that a methodological reorientation in media history needs to take
place. Media Genealogy and the Politics of Archaeology, a Special Section of
the International Journal of Communication, maintains that the field of
media archaeology, and media history more generally, needs methodological
redirection in order to adequately address issues of power and politics.
Media Genealogy investigates how media are imagined as solutions to
political, economic, and social problems.  And in a related way, it asks how
individuals turn to media technologies as a means for personal
transformation.

This Special Section, guest-edited by Jeremy Packer and Alex Monea, offers
interviews with six contemporary thinkers working at the intersection of
media, epistemology, and power who utilize different frameworks and
platforms for engaging contemporary politics.  Interviews were chosen to
directly engage the concerns of media genealogy, namely, what is the
relationship between doing media history and engaging with contemporary
political struggles.

This Special Section features six interviews and an introductory essay.

Media Genealogy: Technological and Historical Engagements of Power —
Introduction
Alexander Monea, Jeremy Packer

Jeremy Packer, University of Toronto interviews Peter Galison, Harvard
University

Alex Monea, George Mason University interviews Paul Edwards, University of
Michigan

Kate Maddalena, University of North Carolina interviews Chris Russill,
Carleton University

Eddie Lohmeyer, North Carolina State University interviews Orit Halpern,
Concordia University

Jay Kirby, North Carolina State University interviews Lori Emerson,
University of Colorado

J. J. Sylvia IV, North Carolina State University interviews Mark Andrejevic,
Pomona College
We invite you to read this Special Section that published June 24, 2016 
at http://ijoc.org.

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Larry Gross
Editor

Arlene Luck
Managing Editor

Jeremy Packer & Alex Monea
Guest Editors
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International Journal of Communication (IJoC)
USC Annenberg Press
University of Southern California
http://ijoc.org/

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