[Commlist] Special issue 'Media Archaeology 2.0: Rethinking Media Histories with the Digital Humanities' published

*Special issue 'Media Archaeology 2.0: Rethinking Media Histories with 
the Digital Humanities' of TMG Journal for Media History published*

Edited by Tim van der Heijden (Open University of the Netherlands) and 
Marek Jancovic (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam).

Media archaeology anno 2026 is no longer adequately described as the 
excavation of obsolete media or forgotten devices. The field has moved 
from inscription systems and apparatuses to anti-teleological accounts 
of ‘new’ media and networks, software, and digital archives – and toward 
laboratories and hands-on methods, and planetary, decolonial, feminist, 
queer, infrastructural, and environmental concerns. Meanwhile, digital 
humanities has become more reflexive about its own tools, archives, data 
models, interfaces, and infrastructures. This special issue of TMG 
Journal for Media History explores this crossover between the fields by 
asking how media archaeology, as a heterogeneous field concerned with 
alternative and non-linear media trajectories, can use computational 
tools, methods, and infrastructures to rethink media histories in the 
digital age. Conversely, how can digital humanities scholarship draw on 
media-archaeological principles and forms of knowledge production? 
‘Media Archaeology 2.0’ describes this encounter as a dynamic and 
evolving dialogue marked by multiple contact zones and productive 
tension. The collection of articles develops this dialogue through case 
studies in experimental reconstruction, videographic practice, 
subtitling variants, source-code analysis, and web archives, 
collectively demonstrating how this encounter generates new forms of 
historical knowledge and inquiry.

https://tmgonline.nl/63/volume/29/issue/1 
<https://tmgonline.nl/63/volume/29/issue/1>

Contributions:

Tim van der Heijden & Marek Jancovic, 'Media Archaeology Meets Digital 
Humanities: Global Trajectories, Methodological Frictions, and Contact 
Zones after the Computational Turn'
Link: https://tmgonline.nl/articles/10.18146/tmg.994 
<https://tmgonline.nl/articles/10.18146/tmg.994>

Guido Devadder, Martha Kicsiny, Ziebe Van Mulders, Steven Devleminck & 
Roel Vande Winkel, 'Reanimating the Anortho-Phenakistiscope: 
Experimental Media Archaeology as a Framework for Artistic Research'
Link: https://tmgonline.nl/articles/10.18146/tmg.945 
<https://tmgonline.nl/articles/10.18146/tmg.945>

Jiří Anger & Veronika Hanáková, 'Videographic Scholarship from Below: A 
Practice-Based Media Archaeology of (and through) Digital Tools'
Link: https://tmgonline.nl/articles/10.18146/tmg.947 
<https://tmgonline.nl/articles/10.18146/tmg.947>

Josephine Diecke, Ariadne Baresch, Sevita Caseres & Alexander Künzli, 
'Time-coded, Hardcoded, Decoded: Excavating Variants and Practices in 
Swiss Film Subtitling'
Link: https://tmgonline.nl/articles/10.18146/tmg.939 
<https://tmgonline.nl/articles/10.18146/tmg.939>

Adrian Demleitner, 'Finding the ‘Magic’ in Programming Games: A Critical 
Digital Humanities Approach to Studying Video Game Code'
Link: https://tmgonline.nl/articles/10.18146/tmg.943 
<https://tmgonline.nl/articles/10.18146/tmg.943>

Nathalie Fridzema & Iris Geldermans, 'Excavating the Archived Web: 
Writing a Vernacular Web History following Media-Archaeological Principles'
Link: https://tmgonline.nl/articles/10.18146/tmg.944 
<https://tmgonline.nl/articles/10.18146/tmg.944>
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