Media Materialities

Dr Iain A. Taylor is senior lecturer in music at University of the West of Scotland, and co-managing editor of Riffs: Experimental Writing on Popular Music. Dr Oliver Carter is reader in creative economies at the Birmingham Centre for Media for Media and Cultural at Birmingham City University.

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Foreword – Nicholas Gebhardt

Introduction





SECTION 1: FORM 



Short Take 1: My Notebook – Lee Griffiths



1. Investigating the Illicit: The Material Traces of Britain’s Early Trade in Obscene 8mm Films – Oliver Carter



Short Take 2: ‘Press the Start Button’ – Harrison Charles



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



Short Take 3: Making Order Out of Chaos – Hilary Weston Jones



3. The Solid State of Radio – Sam Coley



Short Take 4: Materialities of Television History – E. Charlotte Stevens





SECTION 2: FORMAT 



Short Take 5: Only Dancing. Again – Philip Young



4. Between Analogue and Digital: The Cassette Tape as Hybrid Artefact – Iain A. Taylor



Short Take 6: Patch Lead Possibilities – Chris Mapp



5. ‘Because It Is Not Digital’: The Cultural Value of the Analogue Book in Digital Age – Christian Moerken



Short Take 7: Materialities of Spatial Confinement: Trefeglwys Meets Beirut – Dima Saber



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



Short Take 8: Materialities and Craft Value – Karen Patel





SECTION 3: EPHEMERAL MEANING 



Short Take 9: Still Angry: Still Feeding – Matt Grimes



7. Stamp of Approval: A Prosopography of the English Midlands Videogame Industry – Alex Wade and Adam Whittaker



Short Take 10: The Edward Colston Experience – Martin Cox



8. Reframing Materiality in the Caribbean Diaspora Podcast – Rachel-Ann Charles and Tim Wall



Short Take 11: We’re all Victorians Now – Kirsten Forkert



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 – Vanessa Jackson



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



10. Thirty-Seven Retweets – John Hillman





Conclusion: Shifting Horizons of Possibility – Susanna Paasonen

Notes on Contributors

Index