A long time ago at a college far, far away, I was an Archaeology/ Art History double major. Now that’s a huge jump—if not the polar opposite—to make from Archaeology to Media Studies. But after reading David Silver’s “Where is Internet Studies?” I see why it is a logical jump, and why the study of New and Digital Media is an exciting thing.

Silver describes how cyberculture studies are interdisciplinary . . . well, archaeology is too. If you want to understand the impact of Facebook, you must examine the social, economic, psychological, cultural, etc. impact such a phenomenon makes. Similarly, if you dig up a 2,500 year old Etruscan pot shard, you need to keep all of these things in mind when determining the role of that pot in society. However, the crucial difference—Facebook users are alive and well. Ancient Etruscans, not so much. In this living, ever-evolving discipline of New Media and Internet Studies, we can find our final frontier.