Dr Jussi Parikka, Reader in Media Studies and Director of the CoDE research institute, has won a prestigious Alexander von Humboldt foundation fellowship for Spring 2011. The fellowship allows Parikka to work with Humboldt University's Media Studies Department in Berlin and write his new book on media archaeology, contracted with Polity Press.

Media archaeology is an emerging methodological and theoretical approach to themes of media history in the age of digital culture, as well as the changing notions of archive in the midst of web 2.0 culture. It represents one of the new key trends in media studies. Parikka has published extensively on the topic, and the co-edited volume Media Archaeologies is forthcoming early 2011 from University of California Press. In addition, Parikka has already won a short-term fellowship with the London Science Museum.

An interview with Dr Parikka about media archaeology can be found on the CTheory website.

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