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Residual Media Charles R. Acland, editor |
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Explores what happens when new media become old news. In a society that breathlessly awaits “the new” in every medium, what happens to last year’s new? Ample critical energy has gone into the study of new media, genres, and communities. But what becomes of discarded media? In what manner do the products of technological change reappear as environmental problems, as “the new” in another part of the world, as collectibles, as memories, and as art? Residual Media grapples with these questions and more in a wide-ranging and eclectic collection of essays. Beginning with how cultural change bumps along unevenly, dragging the familiar into novel contexts, the contributors examine how leftover artifacts can be rediscovered occupying space in storage sheds, traveling the globe, converting to alternative uses, and accumulating in landfills. By exploring reconfigured, renewed, recycled, neglected, abandoned, and trashed media, the essays here combine theoretical challenges to media history with ideas, technology, and uses that have been left behind. From player pianos to vinyl records, and from the typewriter to the telephone, Residual Media is an innovative approach to the aging of culture and reveals that, ultimately, new cultural phenomena rely on encounters with the old. “Adds to the growing media literature that is based on the cultural studies paradigm.” —Communication Booknotes Quarterly “Residual Media provides an important corrective for current discussions/debate regarding new media and its disassociation with the past.” —Leonardo “This book is a must-read for scholars of media.” —Journalism History “A conceptually ambitious, richly researched, and often provocative collection.” —Modernism/Modernity Contributors: Jennifer Adams, Jody Berland, Sue Currell, Maria DiCenzo, Kate Egan, Lisa Gitelman, Allison Griffiths, James Hamilton, James Hay, Michelle Henning, Lisa Parks, Hillegonda C. Rietveld, Leila Ryan, John Seibert-Davis, Collette Snowden, Jonathan Sterne, JoAnne Stober, Will Straw, Haidee Wasson. Charles R. Acland is associate professor and holds the Concordia University Research Chair in communications studies at Concordia University, Montreal. 400 pages | 37 halftones, 1 table | 7 x 10 | 2007 TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Embedded Memories 2. Out with the Trash: On the Future of New Media 3. Falling Apart: Electronics Salvaging and the Global Media Economy 4. New Lamps for Old: Photography, Obsolescence, and Social Change Part II: Residual Uses 5. “Automatic Cinema” and Illustrated Radio: Multimedia in the Museum 6. Vinyl Junkies and the Soul Sonic Force of the 12” Dance Single 7. Reporting by Phone 8. Vaudeville: The Incarnation, Transformation, and Resilience of an Entertainment Form Part III: Collecting and Circulating Material 9. Every Home an Art Museum: Mediating and Merchandising the Metropolitan 10. Recovering a Trashed Communication Genre: Letters as Memory, Art, and Collectible 11. The Celebration of a “Proper Product”: Exploring the Residual Collectible Through the “Video Nasty” 12. Going Analog: Vinylphiles and the Consumption of the “Obsolete” Vinyl Record Part IV: Media, Mediation, and Historiography 13. Neglected News: Women and Print Media, 1890-1928 14. The New Techno-Communitarianism and the Residual Logic of Mediation 15. Unearthing Broadcasting in the Anglophone World Part V: Training, Technology, and Modern Subjectivity 16. The Musicking Machine 17. Mississippi MSS: Twain, Typing, and the Moving Panorama of Literary Production 18. Streamlining the Eye: Speed Reading and the Revolution of Words, 1870-1940 19. The Swift View: Tachistoscopes and the Residual Modern Contributors |
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