Hands on Media History: A New Methodology in the Humanities and Social Sciences, edited by Nick Hall and John Ellis, and containing articles by ADAPT project researchers John Ellis, Nick Hall and Amanda Murphy, is now available as an open access download (with colour illustrations) at http://www.adapttvhistory.org.uk/publications/books-and-articles/
The book explores the whole range of hands-on media history techniques, offering both practical guides and general perspectives. It covers both analogue and digital media and explores 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?