1.4.3 The return of the Middle Ages and other media archaeologies on Nov. 13.

1. The definition of a term, Archaeology - Archaeology is the study of the societies and people of the past by examining the remains of their buildings, tools, and other objects(Collins Dictionary).

2. About the Middle Ages.
Around 17c and 18c, a lot of things changed. Among them, the most fundamental thing was that the way of thinking was changed from God or world-centered way of thinking into people-centered one. When people thought about beauty, for example, they used to think about the absolute ratio of humans body. However, during the period, people started to change and thought that beauty is relative.

Moreover, before the period, art was only for the high-class people. In fact, just a few of people saw and enjoyed it. However, after the period, people tried to spread it out by educating those people who didn't know well.

Furthermore, rhetoric, which means the skill or Art of using language effectively, was the most important way to spread out the knowledge in the middle ages. At that time, people didn't believe words, so they only talked and speeched what they had or knew. As a result, people were able to have a spatialized memory.

3. The relationship between the middle ages and the new media
The media was not that popular just some years ago. Only rich people had TV, so it was natural that the separation between just few of the rich and the majority of not-rich people. As technologies have developed, the media became popular, and now we call them mass media. Besides, as Moody said, there is a similarity between the rhetoric and a RPG game: they both tell us a story. Also, a lot of RPG games are trying to use the ages as the background because the ages were belonging to only few of selected people.

The process and phenomena of media are the same with the middle ages', and I believe the process and phenomena of new media will be the same with them, too. New media will be for the only few people because when new technology comes out, its price must be high. However, I also insist that they will be popular just some times later, and this is what we have to do: make the technology popular and enlighten people.