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"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 and how we work with them. Hands On Media History explores the whole range of hands on history techniques for the first time. It offers both practical guides and general perspectives. It covers both analogue and digital media; film, television, video, gaming, photography and recorded sound. Essays in the 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. Essays outline the wide variety of approaches to understanding media history through its technologies, including the issue of fresh uses for old equipment and artefacts. Hands on media history offers a new perspective on one of the modern era's most urgent questions: what is the relationship between people and the technologies they use every day?"--

FC -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I The Printing Revolution -- 1 The Divine Art -- 2 The Commercial and Industrial Media Revolution 1814-1900 -- 3 Print Media in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries -- Part II The Visual Revolution -- 4 Photography: Giving Vision to History -- 5 Cinema: The Image Comes Alive -- 6 Advertising, Public Relations, and the Crafted Image -- Part III The Electronic Revolution: From "National Neighborhoods" to the Global Village -- 7 The First Electronic Revolution: Telegraph and Telephone -- 8 The New World of Radio -- 9 Television: A New Window on the World -- Part IV The Digital Revolution -- 10 Computers -- 11 Digital Networks -- 12 Global Culture -- Bibliography -- Index.

Digital humanities is an important challenge for more traditional humanities disciplines to take on, but advanced digital methods for analysis are not often used to answer concrete research questions in these disciplines. This article makes use of extensive digital collections of historical newspapers to discuss the promising, yet challenging relationship between digital humanities and historical research. The search for long-term patterns in digital historical research appropriately positions itself within previous approaches to historical research, but the digitization of sources presents many practical and theoretical questions and obstacles. For this reason, any digital source used in historical research should be critically reviewed beforehand. Digital newspaper research raises new issues and presents new possibilities to better answer traditional questions.

"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 era's 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."

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.

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.