Based on the historical writing principles of media archaeology, this article reexamines the genetic epistemological structure of communication media, by recovering events such as the epistemology of mathematical ideas, symbolic cognition and machine calculation, G del’s theorem, conceptualization of Turing machine, and advent of information theory. This article tries to use Foucault’s method of knowledge archeology to analyze the discontinuity of human thinking patterns and the fluidity of interpretation positions, to grasp the overall interrelations between theory of knowledge, scientific views, and structural practices of formalization by interpreting the relations between knowledge, discourse, and objects. Thereby it outlines the historical trajectory of how computers have evolved into social media to develop an interdisciplinary perspective for the ideas of communication studies.

mathematics； computer； knowledge archeology； media archeology