[Commlist] New Book: Media Materialities: Form, Format, and Ephemeral Meaning

Intellect is pleased to share that /Media Materialities: Form, Format, 
and Ephemeral Meaning 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/media-materialities>/, edited by Iain A. 
Taylor and Oliver Carter, is out in hardback.

New perspectives on the increasingly complex relationships between media 
forms and formats, materiality, and meaning.

Drawing on a range of qualitative methodologies, the consideration of 
the materiality of media is structured around three overarching 
concepts: form, format and ephemeral meaning.  Contributors consider a 
range of media artefacts including 8mm film, board games, maps, 
videogames, cassette tapes, transistor radios and Twitter, amongst 
others and punctuate these with considerations with less formal, often 
personal takes exploring the meanings of media in context. This 
collection creates spaces for conversation and debate about the 
implications that this plurality of material meanings might have for the 
study of media, culture, and society.

Part of the BCMCR New Directions in Media and Cultural Research 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/bcmcr-new-directions-in-media-and-cultural-research> series. 



*_Table of Contents
_*
*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*

Please visit our website for more information:
www.intellectbooks.com/media-materialities
<http://www.intellectbooks.com/media-materialities>


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