TAG2024

This session will explore creative and academic approaches to archaeology as it is presented through new and old media for the purposes of research, leisure and entertainment, and/or for public engagement. This session aims to showcase more nuanced and complex understandings of the potential of the subject field, and in turn the significance of archaeology and ‘pastness’ in digital media, film, television, and popular entertainment, and its relevance to broader social and cultural histories. This session also invites the submission of media objects, creative responses, and other critical practice-based engagements with the session theme, as well as papers presented in the traditional conference format. Scholarly perspectives are invited that explore newspaper media, radio, podcasting, film, television, contemporary art, photography, video games, mobile technology, 3D image capture, digitization, social media and other media forms. Discussions are especially welcome on archaeology on TV or in film, archaeology and social media, digital/multi-media storytelling, documentary, archaeogaming, popular understandings of archaeology, and archaeology/media futures.

11:30am | Archaeology & Media Studies: Public Archaeology Theory for the 21st Century?  | Lorna Richardson

11:50am | Barriers to Digital Heritage Engagement.  | Catriona Cooper & Katie McGown

12:10pm | Romancing the Ruins: Science Communication Through Popular Depictions and Perceptions of Archaeology  | Matilda Siebrecht & Raven Todd DaSilva  

12:30pm | The Site has been Spotted!’: Role of Newspapers in Recovering Vulnerable Archaeological Heritage Sites in India  | Simran Kaur

2:00pm | The Price of a Good Story: TV Production and Emotive Storytelling from Bonekickers  | Mia Coe

2:20pm | Bioarchaeology & the Media   | Ellie Chambers

2:40pm | Human Evolution and the ‘History of Humankind’ YouTube channel  | Carys Phillips

3:20pm | Discussion |

Full paper abstracts available here:
https://tag2024.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/tag-2024-session-abstracts-1.pdf