Hands on media history : : a new methodology in the humanities and social sciences / / edited by Nick Hall and John Ellis.

"Media always involve technologies. Understanding media means understanding their technologies. But little can be learned from just looking at redundant pieces of equipment. The rapidly developing approach of hands on history can open our minds to new perceptions of how media technologies work...

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Place / Publishing House:London ;, New York : : Routledge,, 2020.
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (257 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: What is hands on media history? / John Ellis and Nick Hall
  • Why hands on history matters / John Ellis
  • Bringing the living back to life : what happens when we re-enact the recent past? / Nick Hall
  • A blind date with the past : transforming television documentary practice into a research method / Amanda Murphy
  • (De)habituation histories : how to re-sensitize media historians / Andreas Fickers and Annie van den Oever
  • (Un)certain ghosts: rephotography and historical images / Mary Agnes Krell
  • Photography against the Anthropocene : the anthotype as a call for action / Kristof Vrancken
  • On the performance of playback for dead media devices / Matthew Hockenberry and Jason LaRiviere
  • The archaeology of the Walkman : audience perspectives and the roots of mobile media intimacy / Marus̆a Pus̆nik
  • Extended play : hands on with forty years of English amusement arcades / Alex Wade
  • Enriching 'hands on history' through community dissemination : a case study of the Pebble Mill Project / Vanessa Jackson
  • The media archaeology lab as platform for undoing and reimagining media history / Lori Emerson
  • Reflections and reminiscences : tactile encounters and participatory research with vintage media technology in the museum / Christian Hviid Mortensen and Lise Kapper
  • A vision in Bakelite : exploring the aesthetic, material and operational potential of the Bush TV22 / Elinor Groom
  • Hands on circuits : preserving the semantic surplus of circuit-level functionality with programmable logic devices / Fabian Offert.