Metamedia is a publishing environment.

With new media transcoding analogue publication, all publication will increasingly reside in digital form. Anticipating this shift, we explore the implications of all kinds of digital authorship and publication - pdf, multimedia, wikis, blogs (image, text, video), hypertext, mashups - to augment the collegial ideal of rapid and free distribution of ideas.

Here are some highlights:

Matt Edgeworth: Acts of Discovery

Christine Finn : Jacquetta Hawkes

Cornelius Holtorf : The Portrayal of Archaeology in Contemporary Popular Culture

Alessandra Lopez y Royo : ReConstructing and RePresenting dance: Exploring the dance/archaeology conjunction

Timothy Webmoor : Reconfiguring the Archaeological Sensibility: mediating heritage at Teotihuacan, Mexico

Christopher Witmore : Multiple field approaches in the Mediterranean: Revisiting the Argolid Exploration Project

These are major features in our e-publication project at SOFTbooks@chiasme.com

Also from 2003 we have run blogs on all things archaeological:

Latest from Archaeolog [RSS]:

• The realities of the past: archaeology, object-orientations, pragmatology
• RUIN MEMORIES: Materiality, Aesthetics and the Archaeology of the Recent Past
• Yes we can! But so what? Some observations on contemporary archaeology
• Fields of artifacts: archaeology of contemporary scientific discovery
• Contemporary and Historical Archaeology in Theory Conference 2009
• Tara 2009 Symposium: Live Webstream
• Michael Shanks' intervention into Tara 2009
• ‘Epistemography’ and Archaeological Assembling. A Manifesto for Media.
• Gardner, A. 2007. An Archaeology of Identity: Soldiers & Society in Late Roman Britain, Walnut Creek: Left Coast Press.
• Island of Abandonment

Latest from Archaeography [RSS]:

• 24 Nafplion Street IV
• Spectral colonialism (3)
• Spectral colonialism (2)
• Spectral colonialism
• Reassembling Lazarus: informatic rebirth #2
• "Decay"
• Type-fossil
• Dust to dust #4
• Dust to dust #3
• Abandonment of Capitalism

Archaeographer - Michael Shanks' Weblog

In addition the editorial boards of the journals Archaeological Dialogues (Cambridge University Press) and Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology (Equinox) are hosted by the Metamedia wiki (both are password protected).

Find a selection of our own digital and traditional publications at messages/publications.