@article{Brabazon_2013, title={Dead media: Obsolescence and redundancy in media history}, volume={18}, url={https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/4466}, DOI={10.5210/fm.v18i7.4466}, abstractNote={Adjectives attend the new: fresh, clean, exciting, dynamic, innovative and productive. Oppositional binaries cling to the old: tired, worn, redundant, sick, slow and useless. While anti-discrimination policies can address these connotations when applied to people, the consequences of such ideologies on ‘old media’ are under-researched. While media and cultural studies departments teach ‘New Media’ courses, ‘Old Media’ courses remain invisible and unpopular. This article extends these adjectives and narratives by following a challenge Bruce Sterling posed to researchers: to understand ‘Dead Media.’ I explore the origins of this term and how and why an interest in Dead Media has – in itself – died.}, number={7}, journal={First Monday}, author={Brabazon, Tara}, year={2013}, month={Jun.} }