Hands on Media History: A new methodology in the humanities and social sciences

Description: Hands on Media History by Nick Hall, John Ellis Hands on Media History explores the whole range of hands on history techniques for the first time, offering both practical guides and general perspectives. It covers a range of media, including analogue and digital media; film, television, video, gaming, photography and recorded sound. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Hands on Media History explores the whole range of hands on media history techniques for the first time, offering both practical guides and general perspectives. It covers both analogue and digital media; film, television, video, gaming, photography and recorded sound.Understanding media means understanding the technologies involved. The hands on history approach can open our minds to new perceptions of how media technologies work and how we work with them. Essays in this collection explore the difficult questions of reconstruction and historical memory, and the issues of equipment degradation and loss. Hands on Media History is concerned with both the professional and the amateur, the producers and the users, providing a new perspective on one of the modern eras most urgent questions: what is the relationship between people and the technologies they use every day?Engaging and enlightening, this collection is a key reference for students and scholars of media studies, digital humanities, and for those interested in models of museum and research practice. Author Biography Nick Hall lectures in film, television and media technologies at Royal Holloway, University of London. His first book, The Zoom: Drama at the Touch of a Lever, was published in 2018. He has also been published in the journals Technology & Culture and the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television.John Ellis is a professor at Royal Holloway, University of London. He wrote Visible Fictions (1982), Seeing Things (2000) and Documentary: Witness and Self-Revelation (2012). Between 1982 and 1999 he ran the independent production company Large Door, making documentaries for Channel 4 and the BBC. Table of Contents Introduction: What is hands on media history?John Ellis and Nick HallPart I: Media Histories1 Why hands on history mattersJohn Ellis2 Bringing the living back to life: what happens when we re-enact the recent past?Nick Hall3 A blind date with the past: transforming television documentary practice into a research methodAmanda Murphy4 (De)Habituation Histories: How to re-sensitize media historiansAndreas Fickers and Annie van den Oever5 (Un)certain Ghosts: Rephotography and Historical ImagesMary Agnes Krell Part II: User Communities6 Photography Against the Anthropocene: the Anthotype as a Call for ActionKristof Vrancken7 On the Performance of Playback for Dead Media Devices Matthew Hockenberry and Jason LaRiviere8 The Archaeology of the Walkman: Audience Perspectives and the Roots of Mobile Media IntimacyMaruša Pušnik9 Extended Play: Hands On with Forty Years of English Amusement ArcadesAlex Wade10 Enriching hands on history through community dissemination: a case study of the Pebble Mill ProjectVanessa Jackson Part III: Labs, Archives, and Museums11 The Media Archaeology Lab as Platform for Undoing and Reimagining Media HistoryLori Emerson12 Reflections and Reminiscences: tactile encounters and participatory research with vintage media technology in the museumChristian Hviid Mortensen and Lise Kapper13 A Vision in Bakelite: Exploring the aesthetic, material and operational potential of the Bush TV22Elinor Groom14 Hands on Circuits: Preserving the Semantic Surplus of Circuit-Level Functionality with Programmable Logic DevicesFabian Offert Review What can obsolete, discarded communications technologies tell us about past media practices? How did human-machine interactions require and cultivate particular skills and build communities of practice and knowledge? In this wide-ranging and provocative collection, Hands On Media History lays out how media archeology, as a method and a mindset, can retrieve the expertise, ingenuity and joy that accompanied pioneering media forms. Certain to open up rich new conversations about doing media history.Susan J. Douglas, Catherine Neafie Kellogg Professor, The University of Michigan Review Quote What can obsolete, discarded communications technologies tell us about past media practices? How did human-machine interactions require and cultivate particular skills and build communities of practice and knowledge? In this wide-ranging and provocative collection, Hands On Media History lays out how media archeology, as a method and a mindset, can retrieve the expertise, ingenuity and joy that accompanied pioneering media forms. Certain to open up rich new conversations about doing media history. Susan J. Douglas, Catherine Neafie Kellogg Professor, The University of Michigan Details ISBN1138577480 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd ISBN-10 1138577480 ISBN-13 9781138577480 Format Hardcover Imprint Routledge Subtitle A new methodology in the humanities and social sciences Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Nick Hall Year 2019 Affiliation Royal Holloway University of London UK DEWEY 302.23 Pages 238 Publication Date 2019-10-08 Short Title Hands-On Media History Language English UK Release Date 2019-10-08 AU Release Date 2019-10-08 NZ Release Date 2019-10-08 Illustrations 3 Tables, black and white; 63 Halftones, black and white Author John Ellis Alternative 9781138577497 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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