Media Materialities : Form, Format, and Ephemeral Meaning / edited by Iain A. Taylor and Oliver Oliver Carter.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Taylor, Iain A., editor.

Carter, Oliver, Dr., editor.

Series:

ISSO (Series)

ISSN

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 pages)

Place of Publication:

Bristol, England : Intellect, [2023]

Summary:

Brings together a breadth of perspectives addressing media materialities, and their significance to the study of media, culture, and society. Offers new thinking and perspectives on media materialities, including work that explores media materiality, and the past, physical and digital tensions and media materialities in digital games. 32 b&w illus.

Contents:

Intro

Title

Copyright

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Introduction

SECTION 1: FORM

Short Take 1: My Notebook

1. Investigating the Illicit: The Material Traces of Britain's Early Trade in Obscene 8mm Films

Short Take 2: 'Press the Start Button'

2. On, Off, and in the Map: Materializing Game Experiences Through Player Cartography

Short Take 3: Making Order Out of Chaos

3. The Solid State of Radio

Short Take 4: Materialities of Television History

SECTION 2: FORMAT

Short Take 5: Only Dancing. Again

4. Between Analogue and Digital: The Cassette Tape as Hybrid Artefact

Short Take 6: Patch Lead Possibilities

5. 'Because It Is Not Digital': The Cultural Value of the Analogue Book in the Digital Age

Short Take 7: Materialities of Spatial Confinement: Trefeglwys Meets Beirut

6. Essentially (Not) the Game: Reading the Materiality of Video Game Paratexts

Short Take 8: Materialities and Craft Value

SECTION 3: EPHEMERAL MEANING

Short Take 9: Still Angry: Still Feeding

7. Stamp of Approval: A Prosopography of the English Midlands Videogame Industry

Short Take 10: The Edward Colston Experience

8. Reframing Materiality in the Caribbean Diaspora Podcast

Short Take 11: We're All Victorians Now

9. You Can Look, Share, and Comment, But You Can't Touch: The Relationship Between the Materiality and Physicality of Photographs in an Online Community Archive

Short Take 12: Location, Agency, and Hashtag Activism During the COVID-19 Pandemic

10. Thirty-Seven Retweets

Conclusion: Shifting Horizons of Possibility

Notes on Contributors

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781789388183

178938818X

9781789388190

1789388198

OCLC:

1411300212